Mousehouse
Veteran Member
I helped a friend built a computer last weekend. He wanted to use a maxtor 300gb sata hard drive. He is wanting to use windows xp as the OS. All of the parts are new.
The problem he is having is when he tries to load the OS it hangs and has an error message before windows starts to load (after loading all of the drivers).
When are you suppose to be able to partition the drive? Before the OS is loaded, during setup or after windows is done?
I haven't messed with new computers in years so I thought I would start here first.
If you need more information let me know.
Thanks in advance.
The problem he is having is when he tries to load the OS it hangs and has an error message before windows starts to load (after loading all of the drivers).
When are you suppose to be able to partition the drive? Before the OS is loaded, during setup or after windows is done?
I haven't messed with new computers in years so I thought I would start here first.
If you need more information let me know.
Thanks in advance.