You had installed Linux and now you want to go back to Windows Vista / XP / 2000. But all you get is an “Error Loading Operating System” after the first part of the Windows installer has finished transferring files? Here’s how to fix this error:
Solution 1:
Go to the BIOS settings of your computer. Change the translation method used to access the hard drive from the default setting “Auto” to “Large” (not LBA, not CHS!). Reboot and with some luck installation will pick up at the point where it aborted before. If it doesn’t continue with the second part of the installation, you have to start over and do a fresh install. Leave the BIOS setting at “Large” for that task!
Note: There really *are* cases where you *have* to do a fresh install after changing the BIOS setting to “Large”. However, it doesn’t hurt to first try whether XP will finish the previous install ;-) Now the only thing I would really like to know is: Why is it, that just Microsoft’s operating systems seem to have this problem? Every Linux distribution I installed on the very same machine didn’t have any problems whatsoever with the “Auto” setting. And to be fair: nor has Windows 98 ;-) And I really wonder why it is so hard for Microsoft to post the actual fix on their support pages instead of the blah that’s written there.
Solution 2:
Another cause for this problem may be that an ATA-66/100/133 drive is attached with an 40 pin cable instead of an 80 pin cable. I can’t verify this but consider it as enitrely possible for Microsoft to choke on that so I thought I’d put it up here.
Update I:
On two of my test systems I was able to set the BIOS setting back to “Auto” after the installation of XP had finished. Your mileage may vary.
Update II:
The system I had this problem with is a Pentium-IV 3,06 GHz with an Award BIOS 6.0 with any part of it hardly being any older than 18 months.
Update III:
As I just found out some genius introduced a new way of setting the access mode in some BIOSes. Instead of allowing to set the access mode in the “STANDARD CMOS CONFIGURATION” screen, you have to use “IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION” instead. When the BIOS reports your drive there, you *don’t* press “Y” to accept but instead press “N”. You should then be able to chose whether to use “LBA” (don’t) or “LARGE” (yup) as the access mode for the particular drive.
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Hello i have a problem my comp keeps restarting when it gets to the windows loading screen. when i turn it on it says “we apoligize for the inconviences but Windows did not start successfully” and well you know the rest. then when i click an option it restsarts at the loading screen. im using windows xp professional. hp compaq micro tower base uit all. Help would be apriecaited thanks.
This definitely doesn’t sound like a problem related to the hard drive but rather seems to be either a driver or a bad memory chip problem.
the problem did not solve i hope to know why
i tried to install windows mellinem nd it worked good with out any problems
but windows xp no way i hope good luck for you
Thank you! You made my day! “Large” worked!
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I really found these helpful. Especially update III!! It was a solution to my problem that I’m pretty sure will help me. Thanks,