Hi all. I read some other posts about installing windows xp on the gateway mt3707 notebook and figured i would give it a try. I installed the initial blue screen segment and formatted my vista hard drive partition but could not get to the actual installation of windows xp...
Heres a breakdown of the madness...After extracting the installation files and restarting I get past the bios boot screen but am immediately greeted with this message:
"A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+alt+del to restart"
And after I restart the same message is displayed each time.
Also I am never given the option to do a system install from the recovery partition which I did not format, and was counting on as a failsafe is anything did go wrong.
My assumption is that I fried the hard drive when i formatted it, which seems a bit ridiculous seeing as the PC is fairly new.
Let me know what u all think or if u have come upon this issue and know of a fix for it. Thanks Alot!
Heres a breakdown of the madness...After extracting the installation files and restarting I get past the bios boot screen but am immediately greeted with this message:
"A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+alt+del to restart"
And after I restart the same message is displayed each time.
Also I am never given the option to do a system install from the recovery partition which I did not format, and was counting on as a failsafe is anything did go wrong.
My assumption is that I fried the hard drive when i formatted it, which seems a bit ridiculous seeing as the PC is fairly new.
Let me know what u all think or if u have come upon this issue and know of a fix for it. Thanks Alot!
