Ken wrote:
> paul814@excite.com wrote:
> > Maybe someone can give me an idea of what is going on here.
> >
> > I've got a laptop HP Pavilion ZE5170. Had a bad HDD and so I bought a
> > new drive and installed Windows XP.
> >
> > When I turn the laptop on it sits at a black screen with a curscor line
> > blinking on a black screen for a good 2 minutes. That cursor then goes
> > away and I am just at a Black screen for a good 2 minutes. Then I get
> > the little bar at the bottom of the screen that turns white right
> > before windows loads....the bar fills up about 3 blocks and waits for
> > about 30 seconds and then it fillsa up the rest of the bar.
> >
> > Than Windows Loads normal and I can use it without an issue when I am
> > actually in Windows.
> >
> > Any idea what may be wrong?
> >
> > The BIOS sees it as a Samsung drive.
> >
> > I did not use the HP Recovery CD because I do not have one, but that
> > really should not make a differance right?
> >
> > Anyway, anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > I've reseated the drive a few times now.
> >
> > And even before loading windows....when I first installed it and then
> > it wanted to restart after it was done copying files, and it goes into
> > the actual setup, it would also wait this long.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> Any hardware in Device Manager that does not have a driver and not
> working properly?
All drivers for hardware is there. No hardware that does not have a
driver.
The thing is I have no programs on this OS yet, just the OS. And this
happened when I was installing it, after the initial format and copy
of files during install it would take 6 to 8 minutes before it goes
onto the GUI Setup process where the XP install tells you how much
better XP is and all that.
After it finally boots into windows it is fine.
Takes a good 6 minutes to load Windows.. HP Pavilion notebook 
Linear Mode
