Hello all,
First off I confess to being a complete newbie - have used pc's for years, no problems installing PCIs etc....but I recently purchased a new hard drive, which arrived today. I had hoped to use it as a second drive, but whenever I connected it the PC would never porogress beyond the startup page )the page that does a memory check, press del to enter setup, esc to slip memory test etc). so I soon abandoned the second hard drive idea.
Now i want to use the new drive as my only hard drive - i'm not really bothered about copying any of the files from what will be muy old hasrd drive - except xp, which I have a copy of. Can someone please please tell me how I can get my copy of XP onto what I assume is a totally black new hard drive? This has been driving me crazy, I really need this new hard drive - my old one is 20gb, so you can imagine i'm keen to dispose of it, perhaps place it in a museum or something
Can someone please help me out? This seems a friendly community and I will be eternally grateful to anyone who can figure this out for me!!!
Thanks for reading
John, Edinburgh, Scotland
First off I confess to being a complete newbie - have used pc's for years, no problems installing PCIs etc....but I recently purchased a new hard drive, which arrived today. I had hoped to use it as a second drive, but whenever I connected it the PC would never porogress beyond the startup page )the page that does a memory check, press del to enter setup, esc to slip memory test etc). so I soon abandoned the second hard drive idea.
Now i want to use the new drive as my only hard drive - i'm not really bothered about copying any of the files from what will be muy old hasrd drive - except xp, which I have a copy of. Can someone please please tell me how I can get my copy of XP onto what I assume is a totally black new hard drive? This has been driving me crazy, I really need this new hard drive - my old one is 20gb, so you can imagine i'm keen to dispose of it, perhaps place it in a museum or something
Can someone please help me out? This seems a friendly community and I will be eternally grateful to anyone who can figure this out for me!!!
Thanks for reading
John, Edinburgh, Scotland