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Hard drive

  • 02-04-2005 6:58pm
    #1
    lamella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭


    Hey,
    My computer kept saying 'operating system not found' when I turned it on and a friend of mine told me that the hard drive was dead. So I got a put in a new one but I'm not really sure how to go about getting the computer to recognise it... :o I started it up and it asked me about booting, so I put in the windows disc and that seemed to do things but it said that there was no hard drive found. It asked at one point did I want to partition the drive. :confused:
    Any help at all would be appreciated,

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    when u took out the old hard drive, did u connect the new own the same way as the old?


  • #3
    lamella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭lamella


    Ruu wrote:
    when u took out the old hard drive, did u connect the new own the same way as the old?

    Yeah. Any suggestions?


  • #4
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    did u set the jumpers on the new hard drive the same way as the old one? When u put in a new hard drive, you have to partition the drive to make it "bootable".


  • #5
    lamella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭lamella


    Ruu wrote:
    did u set the jumpers on the new hard drive the same way as the old one? When u put in a new hard drive, you have to partition the drive to make it "bootable".

    How do you partition it?


  • #6
    ExoduS 18.11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 450 ✭✭ExoduS 18.11


    Have u set it to master and your cd in slave... maybe partition means to sort one master to ide1 and a slave to ide2? i aint too much of a comp wiz or nething, just a suggestion


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  • #7
    angelofdeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭angelofdeath


    when you are conecting two devices to the one ide slot on your motherboard the motherboard needs to know which is master and which is slave, the harddisk with the operating system on it (or going to put on it) that you intend to boot from should be set to master, on the harddisk itself there will be instructions on how to set it to master/slave, then you enter the bios, set it to boot from your cdrom and boot up windows install disk


    edit:// if the installer says that there is no harddisk found, then more than likely it just ,means that you haven't your drives set up properly in the bios (first boot device hd001, second boot decie hd001, third boot device cdrom or similar)


  • #8
    lamella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭lamella


    Ok. I'll try that stuff tonight.

    Thanks for all your help.


  • #9
    thesteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭thesteve


    No offense or anything lads, all these theories about jumpers and stuff and the question's answered in the initial post
    It asked at one point did I want to partition the drive.
    The drive has no partition, do what you did before installing windows and when it asks this question, say yes, continue with the install, bob's your uncle, fanny's your aunt....


  • #10
    Webmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    How sure are you that the OLD HDD is boloxed?, it could be just a faulty boot sector.


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