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XP does not detect hard drive at boot up
Name: Kapil Date: March 30, 2002 at 13:48:06 Pacific
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Alrighty, just put together my computer. Trying to install XP, the BIOS detects the CD drive and the IDE hard drave fine. Upon booting from the xp cd, the the says it can't detect the hard drive. What do I do? I've got the XP boot disk and 6 startup disks, but they don't seem to be helping much. What can I do?
Name: peter Date: March 30, 2002 at 14:29:41 Pacific
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new HD has to be partitioned and formatted for XP to recognize
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Response Number 2
Name: Kapil Date: March 30, 2002 at 14:38:29 Pacific
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I run fdisk, but it keeps restarting. Is it supposed to do that? Or am I doing something wrong?
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Response Number 3
Name: joseph Date: March 30, 2002 at 15:43:58 Pacific
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No, it's not supposed to do that. Go to the hard disk's manufacturer's web site to get a disk utility program to diagnose, format, or patition your hd. For example, if your hd is a Maxtor one, then you should get Maxblast.exe program. The disk utility program is extremely useful. Hope this helps. Bye
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Response Number 4
Name: mike Date: March 30, 2002 at 16:15:29 Pacific
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you just need your xp disk check 1 hard drive set to master 2 80 pin conductor cable blue end in board 3 black end to drive not grey end 4 set bios to boot from cd 5 insert xp into cd 6 boot 7 enter for new xp install 8 create new partition ntfs 9 create patition 10 format drives 11 continue with install.
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Response Number 5
Name: Kapil Date: March 30, 2002 at 16:23:19 Pacific
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I've run into a whole new problem now. Goto http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/20571.html if you're in a helpful mood. Thanks.
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