NEW HARD DRIVE and WINDOWS XP INSTALLATION.....

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Hi, I had a blue screen problem last week. I now bought a new hard drive
and Windows XP Professional Edition. I just put the new hard drive in place.
My problem was that I couldn't get into windows after installing a new DVD-R
drive into my computer....and it basically shut down windows to the point
where I couldn't run it in Safe Mode or anything. Instead of reinstalling
Windows XP and losing EVERYTHING on my precious hard drive......I bought a
new hard drive so that I could install XP on the new hard drive. After I
install XP on the new hard drive, I plan on attaching my old hard drive to
the computer. I have both hard drives set to CS mode, although the new drive
is the only one attached to the mother board at the moment.

So, here I am now......my question is whether I'm supposed to start my
computer with the Western Digital (hard drive company) CD that came for
installation......or whether I'm supposed to install Windows XP first. So if
someone could give me a pointer, I'd greatly appreciate it!

-Mike
 
MikeFadd said:
Hi, I had a blue screen problem last week. I now bought a new hard
drive
and Windows XP Professional Edition. I just put the new hard drive in
place. My problem was that I couldn't get into windows after
installing a new DVD-R drive into my computer....and it basically shut
down windows to the point where I couldn't run it in Safe Mode or
anything. Instead of reinstalling Windows XP and losing EVERYTHING on
my precious hard drive......I bought a new hard drive so that I could
install XP on the new hard drive. After I install XP on the new hard
drive, I plan on attaching my old hard drive to the computer. I have
both hard drives set to CS mode, although the new drive is the only
one attached to the mother board at the moment.

So, here I am now......my question is whether I'm supposed to
start my
computer with the Western Digital (hard drive company) CD that came
for installation......or whether I'm supposed to install Windows XP
first. So if someone could give me a pointer, I'd greatly appreciate
it!

-Mike

Just boot with the XP cd and take the install. It will do the formatting
for you. Once you've got Windows installed on your new drive, go ahead
and attach your old drive as slave. Copy off the data you want and then
you can format the drive from within Windows and just use it for data
storage.

Malke
 
I'm trying to install with the Windows XP in my CD-ROM drive and DVD-R
drive.....and both show this message....

Verifying DMI Pool Data...........
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

If I switch the XP CD and press enter.....the A: drive is sounding.......but
I don't have a floppy disk. I thought the XP CD would work fine. I even tried
with both drives while starting up the computer and the same thing happened.

-Mike
 
MikeFadd said:
I'm trying to install with the Windows XP in my CD-ROM drive and DVD-R
drive.....and both show this message....

Verifying DMI Pool Data...........
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

If I switch the XP CD and press enter.....the A: drive is
sounding.......but I don't have a floppy disk. I thought the XP CD
would work fine. I even tried with both drives while starting up the
computer and the same thing happened.

-Mike

In Cable Select (CS) the single drive needs connecting to the plug furthest
from the motherboard
 
Keith said:
In Cable Select (CS) the single drive needs connecting to the plug
furthest from the motherboard

Yes, and Mike - when you see the prompt "boot from cd-rom", are you
hitting "enter"? You probably need to in order to boot from the XP cd.
If you don't hit "enter", the next boot device in line is apparently
your hard drive and since there are no boot files on it (yet), you get
the error.

Malke
 

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