I am having a problem with my computer. A few weeks ago I started
having trouble with my computer so I tried to reinstall WIN XP. About
half way through the reinstall I got an error and when I tried to
restart the computer I just got a message that there was no bootable
device. I got a new hard drive because I thought I might have had a
virus. I tried to get the new harddrive to load windows xp, but I kept
getting an error that it could not copy files. I connected the new
hard drive to a different computer reformatted the new drive and
installed XP fine. When I went to put the new drive back in my
computer it starts up and I can see that it detects my memory (512),
my harddrive and my cdrom. Then it beeps once and checks the floppy
drive and then justs shows me a blinking cursor. There is nothing in
the floppy drive and I have put the new drive in a different computer
and it will load to the WIN XP desktop so I know that there is nothing
wrong with the new drive. I went in and tried to reset back to
defaults as far as the CMOS is concerned and that still did not fix
it. I tried a different cable for the harddrive to the MB and I
disconnected the CDrom. I tried a different video card. None of these
fixed the problem. Does anyone have any suggestions?

The HDD sounds like it works fine so my sugestion is to go into the bios and
check that it is recogised as the primary master device, if not, see if it
will detect it using HDD auto detect.

combrains

You haven't given us much info on your machine. All you have told us
is that it has a CD-ROM drive, floppy drive, Hard drive and 512 MB
RAM. Is it a Pentium II or Pentium III machine ?? Is it a brand name
machine that came with a recovery disk ?? Did you build the computer
yourself ??

For XP to lock up on boot in most cases is caused by a hardware
conflick.

You haven't given us much info on your machine. All you have told us
is that it has a CD-ROM drive, floppy drive, Hard drive and 512 MB
RAM. Is it a Pentium II or Pentium III machine ?? Is it a brand name
machine that came with a recovery disk ?? Did you build the computer
yourself ??

For XP to lock up on boot in most cases is caused by a hardware
conflick.