re: win xp boot error Saturday, November 17, 2001 at 10:43 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by KOSSLO (3 messages posted) Your hard drive is probably not plugged firmly into your IDE cables, or the IDE cable is not plugged firmly into the mother board. Loose components/cables are the number one issue with people upgrading their motherboard and should be the first place you start before attempting anything else. Physically remove the IDE cables from your hard drive AND motherboard. Plug the IDE cables FIRST into your drives, and lastly into your mother board. or if it is a portable reseat the drive a few times This is most likely the problem. It is not a problem with formatting or your Windows installation because your computer cannot detect a hard drive (and thus halted). On Saturday, November 17, 2001 at 11:22 am, JIhad wrote: >can anyone tell me how to solve my problem ? >when i instal an update from windowsupdate.com and then restart i get a error messege >taht says " drive not ready- system halted " and hangs so if anyone can help then >please do . Written in response to: win xp boot error (JIhad: Saturday, November 17, 2001 at 11:22 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] win xp boot error (JIhad: Sat, Nov 17, 2001, 11:22 am) re: win xp boot error (KOSSLO: Sat, Nov 17, 2001, 10:43 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum