Just bought a new WD 80gig (8mb cache!) ANd have XP pro cd. here's what I did...
Installed new fresh HD and then booted my PC. Went into my mb BIOS to tell it to boot from CDrom (since there's no OS on the drive) Rebooted again and XP started to do some things I thought great! Then about 2 minutes into it XP comes up with an error to do with my HD. It says if you've reached this error then make sure all is fine and try to reboot. I reboot again and it gets to the same point. What do I need to do! Do I need to format the drive or do that fdisk (partition thing like in win98.) So I did that with my 98 boot disk and formated the drive. Rebooted and now the bios skips over the cdrom and then asks for the floppy. and stuff like there is no OS availiable. I'm lost now what do I do, whats the optimum way to instal XP on a fresh new drive.?
thanks
Installed new fresh HD and then booted my PC. Went into my mb BIOS to tell it to boot from CDrom (since there's no OS on the drive) Rebooted again and XP started to do some things I thought great! Then about 2 minutes into it XP comes up with an error to do with my HD. It says if you've reached this error then make sure all is fine and try to reboot. I reboot again and it gets to the same point. What do I need to do! Do I need to format the drive or do that fdisk (partition thing like in win98.) So I did that with my 98 boot disk and formated the drive. Rebooted and now the bios skips over the cdrom and then asks for the floppy. and stuff like there is no OS availiable. I'm lost now what do I do, whats the optimum way to instal XP on a fresh new drive.?
thanks