The late XV105
17th Aug 2010, 20:41
Lenovo laptop supplied some time ago with SATA HDD running Vista. Fully reformatted ready to accept XP instead but XP installation failed towards the end of the process every time tried. (No idea of error message as I am relaying this second hand). HDD however could be used perfectly fine if hooked up to a machine that uses another HDD to run the o/s. New HDD purchased on which XP installed easy peasy first time using the same legit source, and laptop has been in use with it ever since.
A wish now exists however to use the HDD supplied with the Lenovo to replace a failed one in another machine. To do this requires that it be loaded with XP from the disk supplied with the laptop whose disk has died, but the same installation failure occurs.
Ideas please?
Likely something with the boot sector?
TVM,
XV
A wish now exists however to use the HDD supplied with the Lenovo to replace a failed one in another machine. To do this requires that it be loaded with XP from the disk supplied with the laptop whose disk has died, but the same installation failure occurs.
Ideas please?
Likely something with the boot sector?
TVM,
XV