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if u install xp it should tell u to format it.
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my hard drive is IDE and the motherboard has both IDE and SATA ports
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Well, I would suggest getting an new XP cd. Or trying a different one using your Key Code.

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What is the make and model of the Hard Drive?
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Maxtor DiamondMax 10, 200GB
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Do you have your origional Maxtor Disk that came with the Hard drive?
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yes, but when i put it in i get a message "Reboot and Select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device" and this goes for any cd i put in except for windows
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ohh an also before it was giving me an error message saying "Intel ucode error" but this message went away as soon as i updated the bios
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On Maxtor website they have a diagnostic I would have to hunt for it. But you could give that a run.
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ok well what i just did was i installed booted the disk with the MAXBLAST software installed it, now im getting a message saying "NTLDR is missing" how can i fix this in order to move on and also one more thing, the bios recognizes the CD-ROM drive but when i was installing MAXBLAST it said that there is no CD-ROM installed eventhough i can boot windows xp from it please help me with this
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