hard drive installation

[Andrew Warren]

I, myself, would try the things mentioned in P Mossels
reply.

I would also have put a bit more information in your
original question, e.g. Details of the HDD etc.

I can't remember for sure, but I think that Western
Digital HDD's have two jumpers to set, (Perhaps one
for "Master/slave", and one for if the drive is the only
one on that particular ribbon cable).

Also, have you run the appropriate utility from the HDD
manufacturers website?

Good luck !!!

>-----Original Message-----
>>I wanted to install a hard drive but it needs to be
>>reformatted. I try to start up my computer with a XP
>>installed hard drive and my other unformatted one, but
>it
>>asked me to put in a boot disk to start up. What
should
>>I do?
>
>I suspect that your new hard drive is the master on the
>IDE cable while the drive containing XP is the slave.
>
>You could try to set the boot order in BIOS setup for
the
>XP drive to be first. Make sure that your XP drive is
the
>master (last one on IDE cable with cable select) and the
>other drive in the middle. Or use the jumpers on each
>drive to set master and slave (one of each!).
>.
>