Reformatted computer but have problems.."windows xp is not completly set up on you.."

[ruderitalin]

ok heres my problem. I wanted to reformat windows so I went into "windows xp proffesional
setup"(booted to recovery disk).I have 2 internal hard drives, so I deleted them both. then
I installed windows on 1 of them and turned the other into a partition. after I turned the
second drive into a partition and pressed f3 to exit, I got the message...

"Windows XP is not completly set up on your computer. If you quit setup now, you will need

to run setup again to set up windows XP.

>to continue setup press enter
>to quit setup, press F3"

, so I just thought thats weird and exited because I knew I had installed windows on the
first drive. everything works fine except when I restart the computer without the recovery
disk inside, before windows starts I get the message "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK
AND PRESS ENTER". if I go into "windows xp professional setup" and then press f3 to exit it
gives me the message "Windows XP is not completly set up on your computer. If you quit setup
now.......".

What is wrong and how do I fix it?

I could just change my boot order, but Im concerned this might be causing my computer
problems that I cannot see.

[5N1P3R]

Hey

ok heres my problem. I wanted to reformat windows so I went into "windows xp proffesional
setup"(booted to recovery disk).I have 2 internal hard drives, so I deleted them both. then
I installed windows on 1 of them and turned the other into a partition. after I turned the
second drive into a partition and pressed f3 to exit, I got the message...

"Windows XP is not completly set up on your computer. If you quit setup now, you will need

to run setup again to set up windows XP.

>to continue setup press enter<---(here)
>to quit setup, press F3

Am not sure, You tried pressing enter and continuing setup?

[ruderitalin]

Hey



Am not sure, You tried pressing enter and continuing setup?

If I did that it would just bring me back to "windows xp proffesional setup". In other words, it would do nothing.

[ruderitalin]

I got another question... Is what I did supposed to work? Because Im not very experienced with reformatting computers.

[5N1P3R]

Ya, it should work. but you got a strange problem

sorry. stupid question: you got two hard drives or one partitioned hard drive?

you have to follow some rules when installing windows on SATA drives. can you run your SATA drives as IDE (option in BIOS) ?

[ruderitalin]

I have 2 physical hard drives inside my computer. my intent was to install windows on one of them and turn the other into a partition so that windows would recognize it.

What I should probably mention is that I had a new motherboard installed recently and apparently 1 of the hard drives had to be connected unconventionally because there wasnt enough particular types of ports or something.

[ruderitalin]

I still havent done anything to fix my problem yet...

Im now getting a different message instead of "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" when I restart my computer without the recovery disk. Instead, the message is...

"
Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.

Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.

Please check the windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information."