Hard Drives

[Tina]

Does anyone use a Hewlard Packard Pavillion? I tried
replacing my 40gig with a 160gig and it screwed up my
whole computer...Can anyone help me?

 

[Manda Luyong]

Please define screwed up or describe the problem.

 

[Tina]

-----Original Message-----
Please define screwed up or describe the problem.




.
now when I turn my computer on it wont pick up the

monitor or any cd's from the factory or floppys so I cant
do a restore or start the computer

 

[Manda Luyong]

Do you hear any beeps? Can you hear the HD spinning? Double check all the
power connectors and cables inside and make sure all the expansion cards are
seated properly.

 

[Steve Filler]

Have you verified that BIOS is correctly seeing the new drive? Did you use
the software that came with the drive to properly set up the new drive? If
you can't get even the monitor to come up, you probably either knocked
something loose while you were in the case, or something got nailed with a
bunch of static. Make sure every cable in the computer is firmly seated.
Clear CMOS (refer to your manual for the proceedure.) See if it boots up.
If not, disconnect ALL drives - see if the monitor comes up and you can
enter BIOS. If it will boot into BIOS without the drives, but not with, the
new drive is probably not correctly configured (i.e. you probably do not
have the jumper correctly set.)

 

[Marno van der Molen]

if the 40 gig drive contained windows xp, and you replace
it with a new 160 gig drive, then the windows xp isnt
transfered automatically or something... You could try a
windows 98 boot disk and then chose Start pc without
cdrom support and then format your drive ( the new one
that is ) and then install winxp


-- Marno