After I got win xp to convert from fat32 to NTFS, it reboot and enters the win xp setup. It gave me an error msg stating that I have a problem and I got to scan my drive for virus, remove and hard disk controllers ot newly installed hd. What should I do? I can't continue with my installation.

A few things that might do it: Disable boot sector virus scan in your BIOS--some BIOSes ship with this feature enabled. If you're using a RAID/SCSI/ATA100/66/etc card (separate from your chipset primary and secondary IDE channels), move your hard drive to the primary IDE channel. You can put it back on the controller after installation. Disable BIOS shadowing. Make sure there isn't any data on your HDD, i.e., left over from a quick format. FDISK the drive, partition it (remember to set an active partition), and format with a Win98 disk. You might want to format /mbr to create a new boot sector, too. When you install XP, leave the file system as is. You can convert to NTFS after you have a working install. This one's really reaching, but make sure your CPU temps are well within the acceptable range.

Hi David, How do you disable BIOS shadowing? I have trie to go inside the BIOS setup utility but I didn't find that option. I have a VAIO PCG-F650 laptop. Please e-mail me if you know this. Thanks.