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Unable to log on to XP on a SATA drive but OK with VISTA on the same drive
LockedI have a curious issue. I wonder if somebody could give me some clues where to look at.
I have an XP Pro installed in the second partition on a SATA drive after all the drama of getting a driver as I asked in one of my previous questions. I have had Vista Home Basic installed on the first partition previously. The XP partition had been working all right. We only used it when we had to use some old applications. When I tried to access the partition this morning intending to test some hardware I put in, the log-on screen as soon as it came up would continuously to blink and the buzzer beeped continuously. It stopped after I hit the escape key but the window stayed dim and I could do nothing with it so I had to hit the power button and it shut down.
I don’t know if it was a coincident or something had to do with I had done. I tried to install in addition an IDE drive of 20G and a 1.44M floppy drive salvaged from one of my old computers this morning. On one hand I tried to make use of any spare drive and on the other hand I tried to get a floppy drive installed just in case I needed one. I didn’t leave the floppy drive in there because I didn’t manage to get any of my old 1.44M floppy disks formatted. I wasn’t too sure if the floppy disks were too old and worn out or the floppy drive was somehow broken. So I removed the floppy drive. While testing the drives I tried the XP OS when I discovered the problem.
I removed the extra IDE drive, so everything was put back to what it was as I could remembered. The problem remained.
I did not think that was a hardware problem because Vista on the same drive worked all right.