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...

Issue with hard drive / booting windows. This morning i turned on my PC and got to the second screen and the computer tried to boot off the CD/DVD instead of the hard drive like normal. I've checked the BIOS, the hard drive is detected fine, and is in the...

a USB removable drive once Windows booted. No, the new computer booted from the hard drive that came with it, but when i returned the new computer, and used the old hard drive to boot on a different computer, it wouldn't work, and i cant find the files i need...

XP Won't Boot WIth Large Hard Drive. Hello, Hardware is Dell Inspiron 9300, Windows XP MCE + SP2. I installed a 250GB WD hard drive in January 2008, and removed the existing 80GB drive. The new drive is IDE, as this seems to have been the last Inspiron...

F MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () Sharon Thanks for this but I am afraid it did not work. Booted from my Windows XP upgrade disk as the article suggested. All seemed to go well - Windows...

Worse (skip to this part if you don't like to read): I decided to try and fix things and format my hard drive and install a fresh copy of Windows. Afterwards, I still got the boot error, so I just removed the other hard drive. The next day I installed an...

drive and get your data off of it. You need to have some basic hardware skills. Connect the drive to your Windows 98 system but ensure you set the jumper on the back of the drive to the Slave position. Because Windows 98 cannot read an NTFS formatted drive...

your qualifying media (the Win2k installation cd) into the drive. Boot with the XP cd. You may need to set your computer to boot from the cd drive - you do this from within the BIOS setup. Once you've properly booted with the XP cd, take the install....

hard drive and copied many files onto it. I believe both have only one partition. Question: do I need to delete the files I put on the new hard drive (E:) before I try to clone/copy from the old (c:) hard drive? . In addition, will both drives be capable of...

drives&boots up windows vista normally when I manually restart the system. So, my question is: Do I need an extra driver? Do I need to set up my second hard drive differently? Or, do I need to change my system bios? Any help would be very helpful!!! Thanks...