I am building a new computer and I would like to use the hard drive from my old system in the new one. Old computer OS is windows XP Pro.Everything is new in the computer I am building and I would like to avoid re installing OS and all my programs. The old drive works fine. Can this be done? The drive in question is Western Digital 80 Gbyt.
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well i have the new hard drive in and started up the machine and changed the bott options to run from the dvd and all went fine until i should press the ENTER ( return ) button to install XP now . as soon as i did that the next window said no hard drive found . this was also happening on the old hard drive that was in the machine .
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I have taken the drive out of the computer and am going to put the drive into an external USB Hard Drive enclosure. Can I reformat/partition and install Windows 2000 Profesional onto this drive via the USB Hard Drive enclosure?
I'll be hooking the USB Hard Drive enclosure up to my laptop which is running Windows XP.
with new instal windows new drive i just recieved a replacement ibm 120 deskstar for my amd athalon im trying to instal from the windows cd everytime iget to the screen that says to creat or delte a partion it show the unpotion drive space i click eneter to instal the partion and it tells me theat there is not a windows compatiable partion to in stall to so i back up and try to cc reat a partion (C) but when i type in the partion space nothing happens the screen just keeps cycle the same options please help.
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I have to replace the hard drive and do not wish to pay the retailer to reload windows XP Home -have installed other Windows operating systems and hard drives � so I have the skills for this task. Now my million dollar question - Product key codes with Windows XP; f I borrowed a retail copy of Windows XP Home can I use the Windows code from the Microsoft Windows XP Home sticker on my computer to reinstall Windows XP Home on my system and activate it or do I need a new key code?
I've been having problems with the PC (Windows XP) and just want to start from scratch. What's the quickest way to reformat the drive so I can re-install Windows XP and go from there. Also, is there any software you recommend to try and protect from viruses etc. I did have Zone Alarm and AVG, but maybe that's not enough.
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I have recently bought a new computer that came with windows vista as you may have guessed the experience mostly has not been a good one, with lots of compatibility issues. I want to dual boot Vista with XP but the problem is I have heard windows XP does not have the SATA drivers on the disc. I understand that you just need to insert a floppy and push F6 I think but the problem is I don't have a floppy drive! Is there anyway I can slipstream the drivers into the install or something?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedFor some reason, my boot drive is showing up as D while my secondary drive is showing up as C. This is messing up my program files and various other stuff. I can't change any profile settings and can't install anything. How do you change the letters in XP?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI was asked by a friend to install a brand new harddrive on his computer. His old one is completely burned up and will not work at all. He sent me the computer with no hard drive and the new one still in the box. I formatted the harddrive using external enclosure and my computer. Now I'm stuck. How do you install windows on the harddrive. I put the cd in the drive and turn on the computer. All I get is a message: NTLDR is missing. Hit cntl+alt+del to restart.How do I Install windows xp onto this harddrive when I can't get past this message?
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View 7 Replies View RelatedTo anyone that might be able to help... I've had this external hard drive for a long time and I haven't been able to access it to store lots of music and videos on. My computer sees that it is there, but like I had said earlier, I can't use it. It won't let me see it unless I go to Device Manager. My computer is getting old on me and it's been places most labtops shouldn't have gone... Once in Purgatory, and now, it's on Hell's surface. I get the safely remove hardware icon down by my clock, but I don't want to remove it, I want to use it. I want it to show up in my drives so I can instantly see how much space I have left and what not... I went through the Troubleshooter, tried every possible way that I can think of, the ways the troubleshooter.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm having problems formatting a hdd to install Winxp. A friend gave me his old HP 743a comp (2.4 Ghz, 512 mb ram) because the monitor kept going black. I am fairly sure the problem was one of the CPU heatsink clips was broken and not allowing contact between heatsink and cpu. It doesn't go black now that I have fixed the clip. He removed his HDD, so I bought a second hand 10 Gb just to see if I could get the thing running. I formatted the HDD with a win98se boot disk. Everything goes well except I can't get the "start with cdrom support" page to come up. The Cd drive is a CD-RW/DVD combo drive (32 x 10 x 12 x 40x). Sorry I can't find the brand and model number at the moment. I did check up on it a week ago and it's only supported by win2000 and winxp. I was wondering if this could be the problem?
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