Hugh, how did you go about creating the partition and formating the drive?
Did you use something other than the WinXP disk, itself?  I know that when I
tried to set up a partition and format using the drive manufacturer's
utilities and then copy files from the old disk to the new (again using the
manufacturer's utility) I couldn't get the drive to boot.  I ended up
starting from scratch with the WinXP disk and everything worked fine.  This
was an EIDE drive.  I think that during the partition process WinXP is doing
something that isn't completely clear to me.  Perhaps it has to do with that
small amount of space that always shows up as still unpartioned when it is
done.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Vandervoort" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 2:59 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] XP Reinstall boots only with CD in drive


>I reinstalled XP pro on this Dell Dimension 8300 after a drive failure, and
> now it won't boot unless the Recovery CD is in the drive.

            Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to
                    Digest mode - visit our web site:
                   http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml