Torqx 2 32GB won't boot after Win XP install ...

[geewhiz]

Partitioned and aligned (1024) SSD on second system.
Installed SSD in primary system as boot drive for Win XP.
Booted Win XP install disk on IDE CD-R/W drive.
Recognized SSD & formatted it for NTFS.
Installed Win XP Home on SSD & exited setup.
Restarted system and received error: Error loading operating system!
Suggestions?

[Patriot_Ben]

Hello,

What is the make and model of your system or motherboard?

Can you make sure that you have the latest bios applied?

Try a different sata cable and sata port.

Can you try a repair or a fresh install? To rule out a bad drive, can you verify that the drive works as a secondary storage drive?

[geewhiz]

ASUS M3A
The first thing I did was upgrade the BIOS to the latest version since I could do that from ASUS Setup.
I will try a different SATA cable and SATA port. [Doubt this is it since they worked to install Win XP]
I will attach it to a second PC as a secondary drive and see if it is recognized and I can access it okay.
If not, I will boot off the Win XP CD and attempt a repair tonight. If that doesn't work, I'll try a fresh install.
The only other thing I tried was to set the SATA configuration to AHCI but that did nothing so I set it back to IDE.
Thanks for your help ...

[geewhiz]

Double checked on the SATA configuration and it was still set to AHCI so set it back to IDE and I was able to boot the Win XP CD and go into recovery mode. I ran fixboot and then fixmbr. It reported the MBR bad before I rewrote it. I then exited recovery mode and ran WinXP setup again. That went well and so I then booted off the SSD and it failed, getting the "Error loading operating system" message. I then repeated this again and got the exact same thing. So, I then took the SSD to a separate system (Wind 7) and attached it as a secondary drive. That system would then not boot, getting an error saying there was something wrong with a hard drive in the system. Removed the drive and it booted up again fine. Looks like a bad drive? Please advise ...

[Patriot_Ben]

Double checked on the SATA configuration and it was still set to AHCI so set it back to IDE and I was able to boot the Win XP CD and go into recovery mode. I ran fixboot and then fixmbr. It reported the MBR bad before I rewrote it. I then exited recovery mode and ran WinXP setup again. That went well and so I then booted off the SSD and it failed, getting the "Error loading operating system" message. I then repeated this again and got the exact same thing. So, I then took the SSD to a separate system (Wind 7) and attached it as a secondary drive. That system would then not boot, getting an error saying there was something wrong with a hard drive in the system. Removed the drive and it booted up again fine. Looks like a bad drive? Please advise ...

Hello,

It does look like a bad drive. We'll be glad to replace that for you...

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