Help!
Just installed my 1st hard drive...hooray! right? No so fast my techie friends. For I am rookie and need some help.
My old hard drive crashed...took it to computer nerdz here in Austin...they handed me my old HD and 4 disk of "stuff" they were able to recover.
I go to Fry's by a Seagate PATA/100 250G and bring it home and (with the help of some online YouTube guides) install it.
Plug everything in power up and:
"Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key_"
One site stated my "jumper" may be in the wrong place. I moved it from "Cable Select" to "Master" but still get the same message.
I unplugged everything and started over making sure I was plugging it all in correctly (to the best of my limited knowledge) and am reasonably certain all is correct. Replace the cover, plug in and....same message.
What do I need to do from here?
This is a desktop, primarily used for email and pictures/videos of my children.
HP pavilion a250n (sad, I know...budgets) about 4 years old. 2.6GHz, 512MB SDRAM Windows XP
I'm sure I'm missing other info but any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
Just installed my 1st hard drive...hooray! right? No so fast my techie friends. For I am rookie and need some help.
My old hard drive crashed...took it to computer nerdz here in Austin...they handed me my old HD and 4 disk of "stuff" they were able to recover.
I go to Fry's by a Seagate PATA/100 250G and bring it home and (with the help of some online YouTube guides) install it.
Plug everything in power up and:
"Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key_"
One site stated my "jumper" may be in the wrong place. I moved it from "Cable Select" to "Master" but still get the same message.
I unplugged everything and started over making sure I was plugging it all in correctly (to the best of my limited knowledge) and am reasonably certain all is correct. Replace the cover, plug in and....same message.
What do I need to do from here?
This is a desktop, primarily used for email and pictures/videos of my children.
HP pavilion a250n (sad, I know...budgets) about 4 years old. 2.6GHz, 512MB SDRAM Windows XP
I'm sure I'm missing other info but any help would be greatly appreciated!!!