Hard drive?

Question

Now i have bought my new hard drive is it just a question of putting it in allow BIOS to boot it and reloade Windows xp from cd.

Answer 1

Once you have set it to slave or master! Xp cd will then do the rest.

Answer 2

Most modern systems (pretty much any machine that will run XP) will autodetect a new hard drive during the boot process. Check the jumper on the old drive when you remove it and make sure the replacement is jumpered the same way and you should be fine.

To reinstall XP, just put your XP CD in the CD drive, turn the machine on, and follow the instructions.

Answer 3

Insert Bootable Windows CD in your CD ROM
Now go to your BIOS setup> Booting sequence>Choose CD Rom first> Save > Exit > Press any key to boot from CD>

Now do whatever u want to do

You can format your hard drive, make partition etc. then choose C to install windows

Answer 4

Any computer that you have bought in the last 10 years or so is going to have a Plug and Play BIOS. It should detect the hard drive automatically.

Answer 5

Plug in your new hard drive and let the system detect it. It will!!

To install fresh windows XP on that drive, u can go here for more detail instruction

http://www.hps.com/~tpg/win/install.php

Answer 6

shouldnt be any problem, if your hard drive came with a installation cd, i think you pc should automaticly detect new hard drive and change the settings for you,

Answer 7

You'll need to format it. Use an old windows start up disk and format it from DOS mode.

Answer 8

Yes :)