Trying to install first SATA hard drive. OS: windows XP SP3 I just got a new 500 GB Samsung SATA hard drive, which I plan on using for storage. My current hard drive is a 250 GB seagate IDE drive that has the OS on it. This is my first SATA drive. I also...

Installing a hard drive with a virus on it. I have an extra hard drive that I would like to use, but I know that it has a virus on it that I was unable to erase (I ended up giving up and installing a new drive). Now that I have everything resolved and McAfee...

does not work on this laptop. Her hard drive does have a copy of the Win2K CD-ROM (installed by the manufacturer), though. My question is simple: can I re-install Win2K over SP4 from the hard drive? If not, can I do a clean install of Win2K...

XP install - no hard drive found. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () I am having this problem trying to re-install windows XP. I have tried booting from boot disk, and from the XP CD. The hard drives (2 Maxtor IDE133...

Installing XP on a new hard drive.. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () I recently bought a new hard drive. I want to load windows xp onto this drive, however, the last time I installed a hard drive(Western Digital 120GB)...

Question About Installing Hard Drive. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general () I want to take the hd that was the slave in a computer running Windows ME and use it as a slave in a computer running XP Pro. Here's where advice is needed:...

Windows XP Installation from Hard Drive. I am looking for the fastest way to install windows xp. I have 1 SATA and 1 IDE raid array and am wondering if there is a way to install windows from the IDE array to the SATA array. Could I create a partition that...

New Vista Install from Hard Drive?. I have an older DVD ROM NEC dv-5800a. When I'm installing Vista, I get a message thatit needs drivers for the DVD player, even though I've already started on the install process. I've downloaded the drivers, but they...

Vista installation hard drive help. Hey all. I'm installing Vista home premium on a PC that I've just built. However, Vista doesn't recognise any hard drive during the installation process. I know that it is attactched properly, since the mobo bios registers...