Hi Rod, On Saturday 24 December 2005 17:11, Rod Lindgren wrote: > It detected the new HD, but would not boot from it.
That makes sense ! > I could be wrong about the new HD being bootable. Unless you have run "Fdisk" and put a system on there. Its not bootable ! > I attempted to make a bootable copy of the HD on my HP notebook. That won't necessarily result in a bootable image. ! > I think I might try to restore to factory default and see what > happens. Good Idea ! Put the new HDD in first, particularly if the old one has data on it that you want to keep. !! > If I put the new HD in, maybe I can boot to the XP cd. > > Rod Lindgren > Hello Rod, > > I have had this problem on several machines, not Compaq !! > In each case I have had to resort to booting from a floppy disk and > then wiping the HDD before I could get the machine to boot from the > CD drive. I even tried an external USB CD drive on one machine > without success, even though it happily booted from a USB floppy > drive. > > Don't know about the machine not recognising a new hard drive though > !! All the ones I have played with simply auto detected it, including > the external USB HDD/CD/floppy drive. > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned > LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: > http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html -- Best Regards: Derrick. Pontefract Linux Users Group. plug at play-net.co.uk -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
