Bought a new Western Digital 320 gig HD, cant get win XP to setup or load.
P ptim Posts: 73 +0 Aug 24, 2008 #1 Bought a new Western Digital 320 gig HD, cant get win XP to setup or load.
Route44 Posts: 12,015 +82 Aug 24, 2008 #2 1. Is your harddrive a SATA? 2. If so, is it placed as first bootable in your BIOS?
P ptim Posts: 73 +0 Aug 25, 2008 #3 Route44 said: 1. Is your harddrive a SATA? 2. If so, is it placed as first bootable in your BIOS? Click to expand... The hard drive was giving me attitude, it finally loaded, after about 5 hours, it was strange, I took the hard drive out, put it back in, and it worked.
Route44 said: 1. Is your harddrive a SATA? 2. If so, is it placed as first bootable in your BIOS? Click to expand... The hard drive was giving me attitude, it finally loaded, after about 5 hours, it was strange, I took the hard drive out, put it back in, and it worked.
Route44 Posts: 12,015 +82 Aug 25, 2008 #4 It sounds like it could have been a cable issue. Just to be on the safe side I recommend running a full harddrive diagnostics.
It sounds like it could have been a cable issue. Just to be on the safe side I recommend running a full harddrive diagnostics.
