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| 311869 | 2005-01-07 22:03:00 | Hi guys, just bought a dse hard drive, I partitioned it in my other pc as a slave when pattioned & formated took out of #1 pc & put into #2 pc as master but when i fire up with startup disk it tells me no drivers found, then menu start with cd or without message shows no drivers found aborting then message tells me to fdisk to make partition on drive so i say fdisk and message is no fixed disks present and goes back to dos prompt, what do i have to do now? I hope some one can help thank you :badpc: |
pete (6712) | ||
| 311870 | 2005-01-07 22:08:00 | What version of Windows, are you trying to install on it?? 98? 2000? XP? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 311871 | 2005-01-07 22:08:00 | Hi Pete, You need to provide us with more information. How old is the computer you've put it in? What OS are you wanting to install on it? What size is the HDD? What size are the partitions? What startup disk are you trying to use? Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 311872 | 2005-01-07 22:26:00 | Hi guys,firstly the start up disk is win 98, the pc is a dell optiplex gx 1 pentium 3, the new hard drive is 80 gig and parttition by half and want to install win xp pro Hope this helps :badpc: | pete (6712) | ||
| 311873 | 2005-01-07 22:32:00 | If you're going to install XP, change the boot disk in the BIOS to CD. Chuck the XP CD in, and it'll do everything for you. It should be a bootable cd. Then let it install XP onto the new hdd. You dont need a 98 startup disk or fdisk, to install XP. The XP install / setup lets u format / partition then install XP. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 311874 | 2005-01-07 22:35:00 | Oops and make sure the new hdd is configured in BIOS, (on primary master), so the system knows its there. And that the jumper on the new hdd is on Master |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 311875 | 2005-01-07 22:42:00 | thanks speedy, will see if that works, at the moment it is not, it is giving massage diskette drive 1 seek failure, f1 to boot f2 setup | pete (6712) | ||
| 311876 | 2005-01-07 22:52:00 | Take the floppy out of the disk drive. Reboot then press F2 to go into the BIOS. There maybe an option in the BIOS something like 'seek under the disk drive menu' or similar. Disable it. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 311877 | 2005-01-07 23:45:00 | still no good, pc starts win setup, loads files etc then says starting windows, then stopsand says processing info file, then the screen goes blank and into power off mode :badpc: |
pete (6712) | ||
| 311878 | 2005-01-07 23:51:00 | are your ide cables damaged? i once had a very little break in the bend of the cable and i couldnt install xp, try another cable, have you tried to delete the partions and try again? maybe you make one partion then create a second partion using partion magic or something else |
Prescott (11) | ||
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