I have a 80gb western digital 800 hard drive and i want to put it in my desktop insted of the crappy 18gb one i curently have. When i plug it in then try to boot up with the XP disk in the cd drive it will say somthing like cant find hard drive. Then i swop it with the old one and it boots up fine. Any ideas?
2007-01-15 10:07:21 · 3 answers · asked by Tim Sing 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Ya i also trid to boot up with the old one that works as master and the new one as slave but i cuildent find the new one anywhere.
2007-01-15 11:35:16 · update #1
I'll bet it says it can't find an operating system. Hit F12 when the computer starts and you should get a bootup menu that will let you start from the CD. You might not have the CD as a bootup choice in bios.
You should also leave the 18gb drive in so you'll have all your files and hardware drivers available when you install Windows on the new one.
2007-01-15 10:52:31 · answer #1 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the bios set to boot from cd rom first
2007-01-15 10:47:59 · answer #2 · answered by jamoman 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Update your motherboard's BIOS.
2007-01-15 10:22:40 · answer #3 · answered by What the...?!? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋