Help setting up a new hard drive

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I have a HP pc and the hard drive is being detected as bad and needs to be
backed-up and replaced when the system boots up. The original hard drive is
partitioned into 2 sectors, the "C" sector and "D" which is the recovery
partition. When I installed my new hard drive I thought everything worked
until I removed the old drive and tried to boot up. My system will not boot
from the new drive. The new drive will work as long as I can boot using my
old drive but it did not partition and make a new recovery sector when I
installed it.

I used the directions that HP had for installing a new HD when I first
installed it since Seagate told me via phone support that I would have to use
the PC manufacturers instructions to install a new HD since mine had the
recovery partition on it. I am at a loss now. Does anyone have any
suggestions on things I may try or tricks that you all have learned that may
be helpfull to me?
 
Scott, if you installed WinXP on the new drive with the old drive hooked
up, it placed the bootloader on the C: partition of
the old drive. That's why when you remove the old drive the new one won't
boot. It has no boot files. What you have to do
is remove the old drive and go into the Bios and set your Cdrom drive as
first boot device. Then do a Repair install of WinXP.
Go here for more info.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
 
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