New Hard Drive Issues

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Cookie

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Hello Everyone

I have just bought a new hard drive as my last one packed up,I took the HD down to my local pc store "PCW" and got a new one that he advised me. I have just installed the new hd but when I turn on the pc I get a message saying: "Boot disc failure insert, system disk and press enter". I have put in the xp install disc and pushed enter but it seems to start reading the disc and then comes back with the same promt. I have not been given any installation guide for the new hd. This is the first time I have installed a hard drive but I have fitted g/cards/ M/cards in the pasted, I'm not sure on this side of pc's as I'm a php/sql coder.
The pc specs are:
2.6 Ghz
200 HD
1 Gb Ram

I would be very greatful for any help.
Thank you, Cookie
 
First what type of drive was installed? Serial ATA or an EIDE type? If an ide which I assume is the case here you would make sure that the jumper pin on the rear of the drive's casing is set to the MA(master) position and connected to the end of the ribbon or round ide cable. The center connector is used when adding a second drive as the slave to the host.

In the system bios upon booting up you have to set the first boot device as cd rom and not "Drive #0" or "HD #0" often with the other devices disable to force the boot from the installation cd. Upon following the onscreen instructions you will give options for "R" repair to bring you to the recovery console to repair an existing installation(not here at this time) or install XP. By selecting thee option to install by pressing the enter key the next screen will ask if you wish to repair the existing installation(repair install on already installed windows) which will not be seen at this time or continue installing Windows. The next screen should list the new drive as the item to install XP onto. Once "Drive #1" has been selected you will see a prompt stating that a new partition has to be created and formatted for the installation to continue where you now answer yes. The installer will then create a new partition using the entire drive space available unless you manually choose a figure less then the total seen in a box. This is one way to create a primary while leaving space on the drive for a second partition usually used for storing files.

Now that the total drive space has been detected and displayed where you have use the default yes answer the installer will create and format the drive with the total drive space seen as a single primary partition. Once all installation files have been copied to the drive the message will be that the system will now restart in this amount of seconds unless you press the enter key at that time for the instant reboot there. Once the system restarts and if you disabled all but the cd drive you would re-enter the system bios to change the boot order. Here you choose to leave the cd rom drive as the first with the hard drive as the second in order, select floppy drive as first HD 2nd, or simply have the new drive be the 1st and only boot device to insure that no further prompting for floppy or cd comes up when the system starts.
 
Wow, thanks for the post PC eye. I think I need to read on some of the things you have said as I dont understand this side of pcs. I really appreciate your help, thank you for the reply.
Cookie
 
This Is A Good Forum If You Need Help!

Everyone gets stumped on something at times. There are some good articles and instruction pages at Microsoft if you feel like running a few searches there. Those can be a big help at times. But if you don't find what you need there or at other sites drop back in here. :)
 
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