I looked up this model and it appears to have SATA HDDs so XP doesn't know how to handle that. Some BIOS include an IDE or other emulation mode so what to do next?
Sorry if I shortchange you on the XP and SATA discussion as it's all been done 1000s of times.
Find an online teardown of that model to fit new CMOS batteries and set the bios to what XP likes. Or catch up on how to install XP to SATA with the floppy disks/drivers and such proper. It's all been written about so many times that again I'll defer to the web.
I can't see what you did to wipe the drive so it's possible you didn't really clean off the drive.
Bob
I have some Toshiba NB100 notebooks which were given freely to me from work (no longer needed), meaning they have my workplaces own login software installed on them.
I wanted to remove my works software from them (since I do not know the Username/Password to actually log in to the notebook.) So I needed to install a fresh copy of Windows XP onto them. However the BIOS was locked, but I managed to boot from a USB memory stick (which had XP Service Pack 3 on it).
The installation worked and I then installed the necessary drivers onto them. All notebooks were working perfectly fine. However, when I left the notebooks charging overnight and turned them all on again in the morning, each one came up with the message "CMOS Battery failure", and then booted - back into my workplaces own software again (how they were when they were first given to me).
I tried to boot them into the last known configuration, but they would still just boot back up onto my old workplaces software. So I took apart the notebook but could not find the CMOS battery anywhere (even on the motherboard). So what can I do please? Even if I don't find the CMOS battery, is there a way of permanently removing my companys software from the notebooks (I had intended to sell them). That way, even if there was another CMOS battery failure, at least the notebook wouldn't boot back into my companys software - all that would happen is the time and date would reset.
Another question. Why was the "last known configuration" my companys software again - when a fresh install of XP was working perfectly the night before?
Thanks so much for reading through my rambling on question!!

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