all i had to do was swap the disk to the primary IDE slot and bingo!!!, it worked.
Hi,
I got a new 80GB Seagate HDD. I started installin XP using bootable disk. After the partioning, the setup copies the files and restarts, i get the message
"couldn't open drive multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)
NTLDR: couldn't open drive multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)"
Tried FIXMBR and FIXBOOT, BOOTCFG /rebuild.
nuthin happens.
Pls help.

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