WinXP boot to blinking cursor

[Guest eljainc]

Hello,

 

I have a conundrum. I installed WinXP home on a 160GB drive on a Dell

Optiplex PC. After setting up all of the programs and setitngs, I

moved it to a Compaq Presario PC. It is the only drive on the primary

controller. When the system gets past the POST it gets stuck at a

blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner. I made sure that there

are no other CDROMs or other boot devices.

 

I then tried to go into recovery console, ran chkdsk /r and also

fixboot and fixmbr, but nothing. The jumper on the drive I've tried as

slave, cable select and master. Still I get the blinking cursor issue.

 

Is there anything else that can be done to fix this....or do I resort

next to a repair install?

 

Thanks

Mike

[Guest Big_Al]

Re: WinXP boot to blinking cursor

 

eljainc wrote:

> Hello,

>

> I have a conundrum. I installed WinXP home on a 160GB drive on a Dell

> Optiplex PC. After setting up all of the programs and setitngs, I

> moved it to a Compaq Presario PC. It is the only drive on the primary

> controller. When the system gets past the POST it gets stuck at a

> blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner. I made sure that there

> are no other CDROMs or other boot devices.

>

> I then tried to go into recovery console, ran chkdsk /r and also

> fixboot and fixmbr, but nothing. The jumper on the drive I've tried as

> slave, cable select and master. Still I get the blinking cursor issue.

>

> Is there anything else that can be done to fix this....or do I resort

> next to a repair install?

>

> Thanks

> Mike

There is a 4th option, master / slave / cable select / and master with

slave.

A drive can be either master single, or master with slave. On some

devices its different. So the question is, is there any other device

on the same cable?

[Guest eljainc]

Re: WinXP boot to blinking cursor

 

There is only the hard drive on the 80 pin HD (high density) IDE cable

 

Mike