Hi, I'm new here. Reasonably techno literate and thoroughly exasperated with microsoft - makes me normal perhaps ? My problem concerns a clean re-install of XP on a rebuilt system using a hard disk that was previously running win98 ok. The install proceed according to the guides/expectations inluding creating partition and copying files. But when it reaches the first reboot it cannot find any boot information on the hard disk and so looks elsewhere and will continually reboot from the CD if left in the drive. I have carried out clean installs on other systems including new HD and without problem and so don't suspect I am the problem. Any thoughts welcome Thanks Ian
