Installing Windows Xp Pro

[DarkClown12]

I am trying to install windows xp pro on a e-machine with a 64mb ram and a 160 harddrive,it has a pentium II but when i try to boot from cd it says cant find a harddrive installed, what can i do to fix this problem?

thanx

darkclown12

[Mïcrösöül°V³]

you should stick with win 98 on a pentium 2. its a little too slow for XP. that could be some of the problem, and the fact you got a 160gb hard drive. the bios may not like that big of a drive.

[DarkClown12]

it doesnt like that big drive that why i got a controller card to fix it but it didnt help either.

[ZLOsiris]

u dont have enough ram to run win xp pro u need at least 256

[ilw]

Your chipset and/or bios (ie your motherboard) may not natively support such a large drive, you should check you have the latest version of your motherboards bios and check what your motherboard is capable of handling.

Win98 can i think handle drives that large, if not WinXP won't run well at all with the computer specs you have, maybe windows 2000 would be a bit better or make the plunge with linux.


Edit: If you don't know what motherboard you have, try checking the emachines website with your computers product id. or post the details of your computer here and someone might be able to help.

Edit2: I just had a quick look and i think win98 can handle drives up to 512GB, but there is an error in the version of fdisk shipped with win98 which will report the size for drives > 64GB as 64GB- size of drive.

[chinook_apache]

thats a very weird combination:
p2
64mb ram
160 gb hdd

[DarkClown12]

ok i will post the specs in a lil while

[DarkClown12]

We ran a fdisk on it and it now syas error installing os. help?

[cwctv]

Your going backwards here after using fdisk which I think may have been from your '98 system did you format ?


error installing os

Which one XP or '98 ?

[Ronald1991]

never mind win 98 is back on it now thanx for the help

[NightStalker]

Originally posted by ZLOsiris@20 February 2004 - 07:40
u dont have enough ram to run win xp pro u need at least 256
You can run XP with less than 256MB of RAM, that is just the minimal recommendation to run XP. ;)

[peat moss]

Originally posted by chinook_apache@20 February 2004 - 07:07
thats a very weird combination:
p2
64mb ram
160 gb hdd
YEP :lol: didn't think win98 supported large harddrives like 160 gb without a bios upgrade?

[Smurfette]

Originally posted by NightStalker+21 February 2004 - 01:25--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (NightStalker @ 21 February 2004 - 01:25)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-ZLOsiris@20 February 2004 - 07:40
u dont have enough ram to run win xp pro u need at least 256
You can run XP with less than 256MB of RAM, that is just the minimal recommendation to run XP. ;) [/b][/quote]
64MB is the minimum recommended amount of RAM for XP.

[peat moss]

Originally posted by Smurfette+20 February 2004 - 21:29--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Smurfette @ 20 February 2004 - 21:29)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Originally posted by NightStalker@21 February 2004 - 01:25
<!--QuoteBegin-ZLOsiris@20 February 2004 - 07:40
u dont have enough ram to run win xp pro u need at least 256
You can run XP with less than 256MB of RAM, that is just the minimal recommendation to run XP. ;)
64MB is the minimum recommended amount of RAM for XP. [/b][/quote]
Smurf I think its 128? But their still full of shite Its more like 256 &#33;

[Smurfette]

Originally posted by peat moss+21 February 2004 - 01:47--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (peat moss @ 21 February 2004 - 01:47)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-chinook_apache@20 February 2004 - 07:07
thats a very weird combination:
p2
64mb ram
160 gb hdd
YEP :lol: didn&#39;t think win98 supported large harddrives like 160 gb without a bios upgrade? [/b][/quote]
Well, any OS is reliant on the BIOS recognising hardware.
An upgrade to the BIOS enabling it to access newer hardware doesn&#39;t necessarily mean that the OS (any OS) will support it.

[peat moss]

Originally posted by Smurfette+20 February 2004 - 21:34--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Smurfette &#064; 20 February 2004 - 21:34)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Originally posted by peat moss@21 February 2004 - 01:47
<!--QuoteBegin-chinook_apache@20 February 2004 - 07:07
thats a very weird combination:
p2
64mb ram
160 gb hdd
YEP :lol: didn&#39;t think win98 supported large harddrives like 160 gb without a bios upgrade?
Well, any OS is reliant on the BIOS recognising hardware.
An upgrade to the BIOS enabling it to access newer hardware doesn&#39;t necessarily mean that the OS (any OS) will support it. [/b][/quote]
Yes then you need a o/s upgrade terrible cycle isin&#39;t it? I think it was called second edition? no

[peat moss]

Originally posted by NightStalker+20 February 2004 - 17:25--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (NightStalker @ 20 February 2004 - 17:25)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-ZLOsiris@20 February 2004 - 07:40
u dont have enough ram to run win xp pro u need at least 256
You can run XP with less than 256MB of RAM, that is just the minimal recommendation to run XP. ;) [/b][/quote]
I stick by you have tryed to run with less BS 256 at least &#33; :rolleyes:

[DarkClown12]

i dont think 64mb of mem would run win xp very good

[The_Hunter]

tried to run windows xp on my second computer a emachine 433 with 256 megs memory 40 gig hard drive loaded up ok was running ok next minute said didnt reconize hard drive files were still ...maybe didnt have driver for hard drive

[NightStalker]

Originally posted by peat moss+21 February 2004 - 01:01--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (peat moss @ 21 February 2004 - 01:01)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Originally posted by NightStalker@20 February 2004 - 17:25
<!--QuoteBegin-ZLOsiris@20 February 2004 - 07:40
u dont have enough ram to run win xp pro u need at least 256
You can run XP with less than 256MB of RAM, that is just the minimal recommendation to run XP. ;)
I stick by you have tryed to run with less BS 256 at least &#33; :rolleyes: [/b][/quote]
Ok, I had the wrong specs in my last post, it does support a minimal of 64MB.

And yes I have ran XP with 128MB