3.5v6 wrote:only thing nobody mentioned is, HDD Sector Zero (Master Boot Sector) is damaged. no matter how many times you format and reinstall it will not make any difference.
change the HDD and reinstall your windows and your problem will solve.
other cheap option to try...boot your windows and run a hard disk master boot repair utility...u can download it from internet free...
once your master boot sector is damaged, anytime you reformat the HDD you will face the same issue.
it seems as though you did not read or understand me properly.
the hard drive is fine...it works fine..the HDD i using is my testing HDD. i put it inside my testing machine..remove all partitions do a full format and install xp and it works....
no HDD errors or such when i unplug it and plug it back in and boot up...it works....
the thing is when i install xp on the customer pc it works ....i shut down and unplug it .....plug it back in boot up and i get disc boot failure....
it wants to have the xp disc in the drive although it not going to copy files from it...it just wants it there in order to boot up normally...
and who says partitioning and formatting doesnt affect a bad MBR??
the purpose of partitioning and formatting is getting the drive readyfor the MBR and to hold files.
dude....the MBR is kinda like an index of the HDD....when you do a quick format what you think you erasing..?? the MBR...all the files are actually still on the HDD...
thats why a full format takes so damn long..it removes the MBR and also removes all data from the HDD....
and by the way, a full format also scans the drive for any bad sectors so if "sector zero" was damaged it would label it as damaged and allocate a new sector of the drive to be sector zero- where data can actually start to be saved from and start working from there...
