Windows XP External HDD issues on boot.

[kreechin]

nothing happens when i press any key, i've even left it for a few hours to see if it would load and notning happend, just stayed on the black screen..

[Pyroka]

Nope, im booting XP from my internal, i've never attempted nor ever will attempt to put XP or any other OS on my external.
Theres nothing in my CD drive, no.

Might be the boot.ini file or something? It's not detecting Xp, thats for sure.

Why did i make that last post, you can load from USB, if its listed in the BIOS. As i'm sure i've done it on more than one occasion with Fedora

Try pressing any key when it gives the _ flashing.

Oh can you? I never knew that.

[kreechin]

Just used msconfig to check my boot.ini and it all looks fine...

[scottish]

Set the CD to run first then stick in the windows disk, run the recovery program on it and type in chkdsk /r once its checked to make sure nothing wrong with the computer restart (make sure you set to run off HDD) if still black screen then run recovery again and type in fixmbr (MBR = Master Boot Record) if it says you have a problem then run it