Microsoft windows XP fails to boot up.

[Centurion]

It wasn't made by a company, so here are some specs...

Mboard: Asus
Model: P5GD2-X
Model Number: 1.00?
The bootable CD was equiped with Microsoft Windows XP Serial Pack 2


Does word "rev" under the model means model number?

I hope that's enough.

Thanks  for the help

[Centurion]

If I'm taking my HDD to my friend's house then what kind of wires do I have to take with me?
Here's the image:



The red one is really wide wire and goes into my Mboard.
The other are going.... everywhere lol...

I'm 100% sure I gotta take the wide red one with me but what about the other kit of wires?

Sorry for being such a novice.  

[patio]

The red one is the Data cable....take it in case he does not have an extra....
The other one is the power cable and there should be an extra one coming from his PSU....you just disconnect that one.
You can't take it with you unless you remove your PSU...not neccessary.

[Centurion]

I took it to my friend's house and things improved a bit. Here's the current situation:

All CDs and DVDs can be booted and I can even run windows setup via Windows XP bootable CD, but when It has copied files to harddrive it won't be able to boot from HDD to continue with installing.

What is Master Boot Record?

It's almost 100% sure that my HDD is not physically damaged. It also seems like my computer knows what to do but it fails to start installation because it doesn't know where it is. <---- Fail@ExplainingStuff Cheesy

Any thoughts?

[Centurion]

I got it fixed and I'm running my computer very well. Thanks for the help.

[Quantos]

Patio, where do you live? I want to make out with you because it worked. It booted the CD successfully.

I'm glad that you got it working, but you know this isn't a dating site right?

 

[dahlarbear]

I got it fixed and I'm running my computer very well. Thanks for the help.

What was the underlying problem and how did you fix it?

[Centurion]

My computer failed to boot from any data carriers because I had unformatted partitions on hard drive. I don't know why but it didn't let me.

Solution:
I took my HDD to my friend's place and performed a full format. After the format, it let me boot CD's but after XP the copingscreen the computer had to restart and the setup didn't continue with installing windows. Then I decided to use Hiren's boot CD to create a new partition and place it in the end of hard disk so the free 8 megs* will be in the beginning. Then I rebooted and windows copied files successfully and installed Windows successfully.

* 8 Megs = The unpartitioned space what windows needed to do something. I don't know what. Mine was 1 mb before I performed the full format.