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EISA Configuration Drive deleted partition in XP and now cannot boot into ANYTHING. (Vista disk, iATKOS + XP)?

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Hiya, I have recently been given a HP Pavilion 7915 which only has a 20Gb hard drive and 128Mb RAM. I am planning on upgrading this at a later date yet that is nothing to do with the problem at hand.

The Hard drive had a 2Gb EISA drive (i think that is how it's spelt), then a 15Gb BOOT (XP) drive and finally a 2Gb FAT drive.

From my past experience with EISA on Vista machines, they can usually be removed with no troubles. This is the first that actually stopped booting because of it.

Using Norton Partition Magic I deleted the EISA and FAT partitions and expanded the main BOOT drive to fill the empty space. Now as I said, the machine refuses to boot into ANY disk that I give it.

The XP disk asks to press any key to boot: Nothing happens when pressed

The Vista disk boots and loads the windows files but gives me an error about inserting the repair disk (ITS BOOTING OFF IT!)... lol

Kalyway 10.5.2 (SSE1/SSE2) disk loads all preliminary setting and then gives me a lecture about not being able to boot into Darwin/x86

iATKOS v1.0ir2 refuses to BOOT and v4i does the same.

I am now thinking about the BOOT boundaries that are prone to XP... (the 1024mb - 2048mb i think it is) and that MAY be the entire reason that the EISA configuration' was there in the first place.

The next thing I will try is inserting the HDD into my main PC and attempting to place an empty space back at the start, yet I really wanted either MAC OS X 10.5 or at the least Vista on their as XP is not a good modern seller to most common households.

Any help or feedback will be helpful... any ideas please =P... I'm running low on ideas.

Thanks in advance, Ian.

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  1. 1 press DEL at start up

    2 boot

    3 highlight No1 using arrow keys

    4 press enter

    5 highlight CD/DVD using arrow keys

    6 press F10 to save

    Note, put the Cd-rom into the tray before pressing F10

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