I was referring to external hard drives, or 'storage disks' (same term). Look here for further info: Can You Boot From External Hard Disk Drive: Running Windows From a Portable Hard Drive | Suite101.com
You see, my problem is, when you say you got a new 1TB 'drive', did you buy a "Hard Disk", or an "External Storage Drive"? If you got the latter, it won't work. If you got the former, fine.
However, my second problem is with your comment: Vista recognises it. What do you mean? The Vista disk is accepted to be installed in this new hard/storage drive? Or, you have Vista on one hard disk, you plug in the new hard disk/storage (yet to be established) and it detects it as an external storage device from within Vista? That's what it sounds like!
The fact you said about posting a screenshot further makes you feel you have got an external hard disk (not for operating systems) and are trying to make it a master drive (principal) whereas it is not designed for this and will absolutely give you the BSOD.
Ah, I see the misunderstanding of my shortened printed words.
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OK its an internal hardrive. No external drives are involved in this task
The computer came with a single boot drive loaded with Vista and boots OK. I simply used the Vista operating system to boot up and check to see that it recognizes my blank 1TB internal hardrive (it does). Then I simply unplug the Vista hard drive and plug into the new blank harddrive and and boot as far as I can with the XP system disk.
The screenshot was only a venacular and yes I would have to capture it with a digital camera and not with a an XP operating system running (because I can't load the &(^(& thing)
I do have a Vista restore CD but that is probably not going to help load an XP system in this case.
sorry for the continued confusion but hopefully we can work it out with these kinds of responses
