I was trying to format to NTFS a 120 gb SATA hdd with acronis 11 home.my intentions was a clean install of Win XP Pro.
Here is what happened:
booted my Dell Inspiron 9300 with the bootable Acsronis Disk Director 11 CD and everything went well Acronis formatted the drive with NTFS without a problem.
Now I'm ready to install XP pro in it,
ejected Acronis CD and closed it,
now the Rig power is off.
In the still open bay, with the Win XP (with the Sata Slipstreamed drivers) CD in, power on the Rig up,
get to the press any key screen,
and then it goes to the next screen,
now the first process of installing Windows begin first the drivers then the reboot. next Windows see the drive and I enter ,now Windows continue to install XP when it finishes the second process,
Windows reboot and it should start the third process.
but NO! It boot the the press any key thing and it stays there forever.
In other words it doesn't go the the final process at all. I rebooted the rig several times but it's a no GO!
This question is why Acronis disk director 11 not doing is job.
I'm aware that Windows can format the drive and install the OS.
Any suggestions or Ideas!
Thx a Billion.