had anyone had this problem

[Buck_Bucholz]

ok i have 2 harddisk

so i have formatted them both....i tried to reinstall windows xp pro and, when the computer reboots after it says missing operating system...ok so i install windows xp pro on my other disk just to see if somehow it magically switched to boot the other drive...when i do that it says error loading operation system.
anyway im gonna try to reinstall one more time see if it does anything...if anyone has any ideas postem..thanx

 

[URAMetroid]

OK, how did you reformat the drive's (e.g., DOS disk, in WinXP, or from the WinXP CD)?

The old way (the way I whould reinstall Win9X) is with a DOS boot disk for that OS (e.g., Windows 95 boot disk), at the DOS prompt I whould type the commands:

A:\format C: /s --- Formates the C: drive and makes it bootable
A:\format D: --- Only formats the drive

But that's for DOS based OS's, not Windows XP

I haven't realley reinstalled Windows XP, so I can't help you much
But did you delete the partition's on both drives, it may help:saint:

 

[Doomulation]

Afaik, as long as you have a bootable windows xp cd, you may just format the harddisks using the old fasion format command and install it. You can also install an older os (like win98) and upgrade to xp.