I have a Compaq Presario 5000, I found a hard drive, and pluged it in. this hard drive was more recent and the whole system went very slow. I decided to use the Quick Restore With the new hard drive and the origianal hard drive connected. I took the new one from a broken computer w/ a malfuntioning power supply.
When I used the Quick restore, the computer still went unnaturaly slow. So, When i said to put in the second disk, I just shut the whole thing down, and undid the new hard drive.
After this, everything has gone wring, I think I've tried every combonation of plugong in one hard drive, ect. I also used the floppy Emergengy disk and states that is an error. I belive that I erased the sytem, or what ever it is, on the origonal Hard Drive
I retryed the CD restore, nothing works
PLEESE HELP!
2007-02-23 06:48:27 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Yep, unless your system is configured properly to utilize the RAID feature on your main board then you are going to run into problems like this...also if the hard drive has corrupted sectors or is overheating because it is crammed together in your box could also cause problems. At any rate you will need a windows CD (not restore disks). First disconnect the new drive you "found" and only use the old one for now, that the operating system is on. Insert the disk into your CD drive and restart your PC. You should be able to reformat and install windows this way. you could also try to run a command line and use fdisk to reformat, but I'm not so sure you can in your current situation without getting access to DOS through the windows disk. The only other thing I can think of is your power supply is on the fritz, but I don't think this could be the problem. Good luck...the OS and other hardware information could be useful in diagnosing your problem!
2007-02-23 07:03:40 · answer #1 · answered by truthseeker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you imaged, or cloned the old OS system of the Old hard drive, it will run slow on the new one too. Reformat the New hard drive and do a fresh install from the Restore CD, Microsoft allows some hardware changes to the PC without having to explain to them in detail why you changed something, when XP is installed it does a Seven Step check of certain hardware for changes, if too much has changed it will not activate electronically, you will have to call microsoft to get a key that's valid after explanation, if the hard drive is the Only change then your good to go...
2007-02-23 06:55:01 · answer #2 · answered by Devil Dog 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put all your hardware back to the way it originally was before you started playing with it. Then run your quick restore CD. The first thing it does is check your hardware configuration so if you mess around with which hard drives are in the machine it will come up with error messages.
2007-02-23 06:53:45 · answer #3 · answered by taskr36 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
provided the nit has put it back and connected it up properly he will need to use the CD that came with it. If he can't do that or hasn't got the original CD then he will have to buy a new PC - what on earth did he remove it for - is he a PC technician or something?
2016-05-24 03:02:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have come across a site that discusses some hard drive problems. Formatting and installation of operating system is discussed here! The site may be of help to you. http://www.jskproducts.co.uk/harddrive.htm
2007-02-27 02:00:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋