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DaJMasta:
For what it's worth, no XP era machine I've worked with I could get to reliably boot from bootable USBs.  A normal bootable CD should be fine, and a bootable floppy would be fine, but something about the USB implementation in boards from this era has made USB booting (less so from USB CD drives) a roll of the dice even when there's a bios option for it.

If you're installing XP, use a CD, that's what I'd stick with.

sixtimesseven:

--- Quote from: nctnico on December 06, 2019, 07:29:46 pm ---Did you change the hard drive and/or IDE cable? Your symptoms look like the hard drive or the cable between the motherboard and hard drive is bad. Another suspect is the memory.

--- End quote ---

The original hd has a serious case of the clicking death... That's why I have to reinstall.
I attached a 500gb hd on the sata1 port. When I used an alternative cd drive, I attached that one on the sata1 just to see if I would get anything. I do not have another IDE cd drive. I would have another IDE hd to test but I dont see how that would help at this stage.

Maybe I burn another set of xp cds.

However I find it strange that with the original IDE cd drive, the win xp setup fails without any error at all (new never opened disks) and the win 2000 installation at least reports an error...

Strange. Windows. I love it ^^

nctnico:
If you burn a CD-ROM be sure to burn it at the lowest speed. I have bad experiences using CD-ROMs burned at high speeds in older CD-ROM drives.

analogRF:

--- Quote from: sixtimesseven on December 06, 2019, 08:14:45 pm ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on December 06, 2019, 07:29:46 pm ---Did you change the hard drive and/or IDE cable? Your symptoms look like the hard drive or the cable between the motherboard and hard drive is bad. Another suspect is the memory.

--- End quote ---

The original hd has a serious case of the clicking death... That's why I have to reinstall.
I attached a 500gb hd on the sata1 port. When I used an alternative cd drive, I attached that one on the sata1 just to see if I would get anything. I do not have another IDE cd drive. I would have another IDE hd to test but I dont see how that would help at this stage.

Maybe I burn another set of xp cds.

However I find it strange that with the original IDE cd drive, the win xp setup fails without any error at all (new never opened disks) and the win 2000 installation at least reports an error...

Strange. Windows. I love it ^^

--- End quote ---

despite the hdd being noisy and about to die, does the scope boot and work with that hard drive? if it does, just make an image on a ssd
you need to back up and transfer your cal data from D drive anyways, I think.

sixtimesseven:

--- Quote from: DaJMasta on December 06, 2019, 08:07:30 pm ---For what it's worth, no XP era machine I've worked with I could get to reliably boot from bootable USBs.  A normal bootable CD should be fine, and a bootable floppy would be fine, but something about the USB implementation in boards from this era has made USB booting (less so from USB CD drives) a roll of the dice even when there's a bios option for it.

If you're installing XP, use a CD, that's what I'd stick with.

--- End quote ---


Dammit! Burned the iso to a disk and it works  |O |O |O

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