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re: New build not finding hard drives with XP
Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 11:12 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Johnb33
(1518 messages posted)
You will need to do a repair reinstallation to get the old drive that was setup on
a different system to work with your new system. But as far as being able to activate
it...thats another story.
On Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 10:56 am, Bill wrote:
>Hi Everyone. I have just about finished building my new computer but I am stuck.
>When I start the computer it boots to Asus boot menu and I can alter that, but when
>I just let it run, it asks if I want to boot windows normally. I hit enter and it
>says no hard drives found and restarts.
>My mother board is an ASUS M3A32-MVP with a AMD X2 6400+ processor.
>when I go into the Bios settings it shows the hard drive with XP on it and it shows
>the dvd drive. I have altered the boot sequence but that did not help. My hard drive
>is an IDE drive and the motherboard only has 1 IDE plug and everything else is SATA,
>which I do not have a Sata drive yet.
>A friend told me I need to format the hard drive to work with the new system but
>I really do not see how that will make the motherboard recognize the hard drive
with
>Xp on it. The book says it will work with XP operating system.
>other things that you may want to know if it helps.
>2 gig 1066mhz ram
>NVidia 8800gts
>Zalman cooler
>550 watt power supply ( updating soon)
>120 gig Western digital HD
>160 gig Western digital HD
>
>Can anyone help me??
>
>Thanks Bill
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