Hi all, I am trying to fix a Maxdata 700T laptop (PIII 900MHz, 256Mb RAM, 20Gb Hdd) for a friend. It was working ok but it was a hacked copy of xp, he now has a legit copy to install. I booted a Seagate utility cd and did a quick zero fill of the hdd to erase it. But the laptop won't boot from the Genuine XP cd, it will still boot from the Seagate disc. I tried making a set of XP setup floppies which go through all the motions but then I get a BSOD after the last floppy has loaded. I don't know whats going on?
Hi, yeah, I could get it to boot from the seagate cd no probs, I seem to have sussed it now, I was using a Dell branded cd, (which I have used for many different pc's to install with) I tried with a copy of a generic xp cd and it booted. All sorted now, and it even installed all the devices in device manager, not sure if that was on cd or because I had ethernet connected during install? Thanks for taking the time to read.
The Dell CD is a bad idea. These discs are specifically geared towards the laptop models it comes with. It only contains the drivers and so forth specifically for the Dell laptops.
