kyleman
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Hey guys,
Ive got an old Hp Vectra set up in the other room.
It was working fine for a day or two but seeing as it only had about 2gb of memory i decided i should put in my other 7gb hdd for music purposes.
Because the cord that was going from my hdd to the mobo only had one connector thing I used another one from my spare parts that you could connect two hdds to the mobo.
I did that and plugged the second hdd into the power supply and started it up.
It still only picked up the first drive so i tried a couple of things then gave up when i realised the second HDDwas dead.
So the computer has the same things in it and plugged in as it did originally but when ever i turn it on it passes the Vectra screen and then goes to a black screen with the _ symbol bleeping. And nothing happens.
So i tried booting up with ms-dos and i changed it to c drive then FORMAT C: but it said like problem with C drive or something Abort, Retry, Fail..
Ive tried swapping things around in bios but that did nothing so i put them back to defaults.. The hdd cant be wrecked because the computer hasnt blown or anything all ive tried to do is put in another one which i think is acctually wrecked because it came out of an old computer.
So what should I do?
Oh and ive tried booting from disk many times (windows 98 se setup disk) but after the first two screens it says like registry scanned press any key to restart computer and it does that every time.
Any ideas?
Ive got an old Hp Vectra set up in the other room.
It was working fine for a day or two but seeing as it only had about 2gb of memory i decided i should put in my other 7gb hdd for music purposes.
Because the cord that was going from my hdd to the mobo only had one connector thing I used another one from my spare parts that you could connect two hdds to the mobo.
I did that and plugged the second hdd into the power supply and started it up.
It still only picked up the first drive so i tried a couple of things then gave up when i realised the second HDDwas dead.
So the computer has the same things in it and plugged in as it did originally but when ever i turn it on it passes the Vectra screen and then goes to a black screen with the _ symbol bleeping. And nothing happens.
So i tried booting up with ms-dos and i changed it to c drive then FORMAT C: but it said like problem with C drive or something Abort, Retry, Fail..
Ive tried swapping things around in bios but that did nothing so i put them back to defaults.. The hdd cant be wrecked because the computer hasnt blown or anything all ive tried to do is put in another one which i think is acctually wrecked because it came out of an old computer.
So what should I do?
Oh and ive tried booting from disk many times (windows 98 se setup disk) but after the first two screens it says like registry scanned press any key to restart computer and it does that every time.
Any ideas?