Hard Drive Messed Up

In my desktop in the sig I have a 200gb master and a 80gb slave...when i turned it on the other day it said hard drive failure imminent and then it wouldn't give me the flash screen...

so I unplugged the slave hard drive which was making the clicking sound and now I tried installing windows xp from a bootable usb and I still get this message

"Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.could not read from the selectedboot disk. check boot path and disk hardware"

So what's your question? You've had a harddrive fail, need to get a new one installed.

AFAIK you can't install windows on a USB drive

linkin said:

AFAIK you can't install windows on a USB drive

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For the most part you can't but there are a select few of USB thumbdrives/external HD's that will allow you to install OS's on them. Sometimes they require a bit of tweaking and since it's USB, it's not very fast.

I guess my question is that will buying a new hard drive fix the problem or is there a chance its something else And i should just get a new pc

As long as your computer is posting just not booting due to this harddrive, a new drive will fix the problem. Clicking harddrives mean they have physically failed and they'll generally disrupt the POST of the system, when drives fail they can cause some weird things to happen..

Check your jumper settings. If the drive is set to "master with slave present" then change it to just "master" seeing as how there is no longer a slave.

kar3384 said:

Check your jumper settings. If the drive is set to "master with slave present" then change it to just "master" seeing as how there is no longer a slave.

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Sounds to me like all he did was reboot the system and the drive didn't show up, then he unplugged the drives. So no settings were changed therefore his issue isn't jumper related.