Peter
December 6th 03, 09:46 PM
Hi,
Attach the old HD as master and use a Win 98/ME startup
disk to run FDISK and format the HD.
Peter
>-----Original Message-----
>Good evening. I recently changed hard drives. New hard
>drive is working fine. I formatted it and did a clean
>install of Windoes XP Pro. I put the old drive in an
>enclosure, deleted the partitions and and re-formatted
it
>using windows xp disk management. Once in a while when
it
>is connected to my usb 2 port, on start up, my computer
>looks to thisn drive for windows and freezes at sign-on.
>The hard drive shows as completely empty. Are there
files
>(MBR),that I can't see, still on this hard drive that
win
>xp did not remove when I re-formatted it. What could be
>causing boot up to do this.
>
>Thanks Phil
>.
>
Attach the old HD as master and use a Win 98/ME startup
disk to run FDISK and format the HD.
Peter
>-----Original Message-----
>Good evening. I recently changed hard drives. New hard
>drive is working fine. I formatted it and did a clean
>install of Windoes XP Pro. I put the old drive in an
>enclosure, deleted the partitions and and re-formatted
it
>using windows xp disk management. Once in a while when
it
>is connected to my usb 2 port, on start up, my computer
>looks to thisn drive for windows and freezes at sign-on.
>The hard drive shows as completely empty. Are there
files
>(MBR),that I can't see, still on this hard drive that
win
>xp did not remove when I re-formatted it. What could be
>causing boot up to do this.
>
>Thanks Phil
>.
>