re: Hard Drive Flamed!
Monday, April 7, 2003 at 8:51 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bob B
(2307 messages posted)
If the new hard drive is the only one in the machine, it should boot and start setup
if you turn it on (or do a "Ctrl-Alt-Delete"). If it comes up with a "Non-System
Disk" warning, you need to go into the BIOS Setup and tell it to boot from the CD,
but most are already set to do this.
After that, it's just a normal install.
Good Luck
On Monday, April 7, 2003 at 8:32 am, surfrider wrote:
>Yep, last night, I turn on my PC, and I hear a "click click click" from my HD. So
>I am assuming its toast. No worries I've been waiting to upgrade anyways. Anyways
>heres my question. I am going to buy a fresh, full copy of XP Home and a new hard
>drive. I have installed NT, 2K, ME, 98/98SE all to "clean" hard drives. But I have
>never installed XP to one. If I install the new HD and put the XP CD into the CD
>ROM, will it boot straight to the installation like the others I have mentioned?
>Also, what do I do it doesnt boot to the XP CD? I'm assuming it will boot to DOS,
>so what would the command be to install from DOS?
>
>Hopefully, I can get some feedback sometime today as Im buying this stuff today
at
>lunch. Thanks in advance.
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