Trouble booting a new m/b
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Pop - I have had a couple of drive failures with Maxtor 'DiamondMax' drives, the last went back to supplier and was replaced. The first just outside warranty. Hope you have more luck!
I think daughter will need to re-install all her stuff - progs etc unless you can cheat and copy docs and settings etc from the old drive - if indeed ME has that? I am not familiar.
I think daughter will need to re-install all her stuff - progs etc unless you can cheat and copy docs and settings etc from the old drive - if indeed ME has that? I am not familiar.
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Is it ATA or SATA??
Only snag may be, if its SATA dont forget to have the driver ready to slip in the floppy drive when it gets to the part about loading 3rd party disk drivers
Only snag may be, if its SATA dont forget to have the driver ready to slip in the floppy drive when it gets to the part about loading 3rd party disk drivers
Originally Posted by PPRuNe Pop
Hi folks.
Events seems to have overtaken us.
I took the HDD home to run it on my machine and it is a mess. I couldn't find any usuable OS and I think it is knackered - so I have binned it. The BIOS did see it OK but it just will not work. It was also a name I was not familiar with!!!
I have ordered an 80gb Maxtor - OEM. Any problems I should watch out for? I will put XP Pro in at startup and so I hope to get it far enough to install. In other words is this the best way? Advice will be appreciated.
Thanks again.
PPP
Events seems to have overtaken us.
I took the HDD home to run it on my machine and it is a mess. I couldn't find any usuable OS and I think it is knackered - so I have binned it. The BIOS did see it OK but it just will not work. It was also a name I was not familiar with!!!
I have ordered an 80gb Maxtor - OEM. Any problems I should watch out for? I will put XP Pro in at startup and so I hope to get it far enough to install. In other words is this the best way? Advice will be appreciated.
Thanks again.
PPP
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Not SATA, although i thought about it!. But as my said thoughts are at max I decided that she can stay on the slow line and not the express line.
BOAC. You are right. But as I am going to load XP Pro I am also putting in MS Office and what she had is lost. All other progs can go on as and when. Certainly, not until I have installed a firewall and AVG. That's what caused the problem I think - she didn't have ANY
Still a tad concerned that a floppy doesn't come with HDD - OEM! But I recall doing a cold startup with the XP disk in the CD-ROM.
Thanks again fellas.
PPP
BOAC. You are right. But as I am going to load XP Pro I am also putting in MS Office and what she had is lost. All other progs can go on as and when. Certainly, not until I have installed a firewall and AVG. That's what caused the problem I think - she didn't have ANY
Still a tad concerned that a floppy doesn't come with HDD - OEM! But I recall doing a cold startup with the XP disk in the CD-ROM.
Thanks again fellas.
PPP
