Seagate 200GB SATA Wrongly Installed
Feb 24, 2007
I have 2 Hard drive 80GB and 200GB. Windows XP SP2 in 80GB Hard Drive.I was using 200GB Segate SATA as single partion with lots of my photographi working files stored in it. Recently I installed a new hard 40 GB drive but wrongly installed Windows XP1 and my 200GB hardisk show my 128GB but no file in it. Again I used my old hard drive with 80GB (Windows XP SP2) and connected the 200GB hard drive. Drive Show (The disk in Drive D: is not formated. Do you want to format it now?) PPTD to fix the MBR and rebuild partition. But Now It shows 200GB but Not able to view any files and asking me to Format.
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Jan 1, 2005
I recently installed a new Seagate 120 GB hard drive as a slave. I also installed iTunes and am importing songs from my CD collection. Since doing this I am frequently getting a blue screen on Windows XP w/ Service Pack 2. It also seems as though my system is a little sluggish.
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I switched on new pc to load windows and i get no signal on my monitor also my usb mouse and usb keyboard does not light up,iget power to motherboard and case fans +dvd drive,i have put my windows xp os disc into dvd drive and basically it does nothing.
Do i need to make a windows boot disc or something to start instillation.
I still have windows loaded on my secondary sata hdd but the system32 is corrupt,so i have opted to install new sata hdd,then transfer my files from secondary hdd,once that is done gonna format secondary drive and use it for storage.So i still have the option of entering the bios on my motherboard if i connect it up and disconnect the other drive.
I have left the drive disconnected while i install windows then gonna plug it in after windows installation.
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1) How can I install XP Pro on a system with a 200G system drive and get it to reckognize the full disk size, even though I need to download the SP2?
2) Is there a way to get Windows XP with SP2 included at a reduced price from MS if we return the copy we have?
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