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JK119
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 Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:59 pm Post subject: Installing new Hard Drive -..?? |
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Recently purchased Maxtor SATA/300 - 500gb
My pc- dell/quad core 3.2ghz-intel/2gb ram/nvidia vid card...
It came with windows xp, i had it installed on another hd...
so i took it out and tried installing windows xp on this one... here is what happens
It boots up to the hard drive so i hit f12 to the boot menu and select boot from cd, it goes to the screen that says click enter to install windows or "r" to repair , i click enter... and it freezes there .. completely locks it up... what am i doing wrong??
thanks
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mrsugg
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Two things.
1. New HDD's often have to be formatted before you can use them.
2. If the version of Windows is an OEM that was pre-installed on the Dell, it may not be installed on another HDD at the same time
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JK119
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1. could you explain to me what i need to do to reformat it?
2. the windows cd came w/ the system and i had re-installed on the hd once already w/ the hd that was in my system..
and i had removed that hd completely out my machine and put this one in....
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Ikeb
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I doubt that it's the HD needing to be formatted first. The windows installer will do that as required. I expect that it's a matter of the correct driver for your HD not being included with the windows cd. You'll need to put the HD drivers on a floppy and near the start of booting the installer, chose F6 to allow loading the drivers from the floppy.
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JK119
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:47 am Post subject: |
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problem sovled...
needed damn raid controllers on a boot disk to load with...
took me awhile to figure out why this was getting so complicated
thanks for the support
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