Recognising hard drives

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Face50

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Hello all. Iv just bought all the parts from eBuyer and built myself a new computer. Just wondering if anyone could tell me why my computer is giving me this warning/error message everytime I start windows (as it's loading up);

'There is no disk in drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\HardDisk1\DR2'

It's very odd, and it doesnt make any difference whether I click 'cancel' or 'continue' (obvisouly 'retry' just brings up the same message).

Another wierd thing, that may well be relivant is that the normasl local drive (my hard drive) is letter 'H', rather than the normal 'C'. Is there any way to change this? Also, in 'My Computer', under 'Devices with Removable Storage', aswell as the normal 'A' Drive, theres a 'C' drive, and an 'E', 'F', and 'G' drive! When I double click any of them though, they give me this;

'Please insert a disk into drive'

Whats going on????????
Cheers
 
You need to partition your drives, the first time you install windows it boots off the disc, then you need to partition your hard drive and tell the OS to boot off of whatever you set it to.
 
go into the bios of the computer and look at your boot up order.

and drives a through h? do u have 8 media drives or are these letters for nothing?
 
Sounds like your hard drive was pre-partitioned when you bought it?

Is the drive SATA? If so you'll need to install the drivers from floppy. If not you might need to make the CD the first booting device in the bios, then make sure you've got the OS boot CD in when you restart, it will give you options to format the drive before installing.
 
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