I formatted a 150 gig. HD and loaded Windows XP on my Compaq computer. Windows boots up properly when opened using the Compac. If i put the drive in my 2nd PC (no brand name) I get a message that Operating system cannot load, but both HD’s work fine with the Compac. The 150 g HD had worked previously on the 2nd PC running XP, which I did the same way, but it was an older version of XP. I was just doing a clean install with a newer version with SP including SP2. If I take the HD out of my Compac I get the same error message on that 2nd PC. I changed the ribbon cable and know I have the HD designated as Master and using correct cable position. Any Ideas are welcome! Thanks.

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