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Cant install xp :S
Name: battlesnake Date: August 5, 2007 at 14:14:00 Pacific OS: xp home CPU/Ram: sempron 2800+/1 gb ddr 40
Comment:
ok heres my problem i got an old pc which was runnin 98se it was a compaq, with a celeron 533, 128mb ram, 10 g hdd. i put a p3 1 ghz in, and another 256 mb of ram. ran xp installation, got to the copying files section, then the reset. and tthen i got this error. cannot open? (not sure if it says open or load or wat ever) multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)
can anyone help me with wat this means? and how to fix. the pc was working "fine" before. thanks so much for any help -locky
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