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[John]

My computer crash due to a power surge. I remove the hard
drive and placed it into the new computer. Windows does
not detect the hard drive. When I try to boot off the
windows cd I am getting the following message: Cannot
detect the biosinfo.inf press r on the next screen. It
never gets to the next screen. it dies right there.

Any thoughts.

[Thorsten Matzner]

"John" > wrote:

>My computer crash due to a power surge. I remove the hard
>drive and placed it into the new computer. Windows does
>not detect the hard drive. When I try to boot off the
>windows cd I am getting the following message: Cannot
>detect the biosinfo.inf press r on the next screen. It
>never gets to the next screen. it dies right there.

Just an idea: if you got the Windows-CD with the old computer you may
not be able to use it on another machine. Contact the manufacturer of
the old computer for further help if this is the case.

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[Cassandra's Bastard]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 15:42:17 -0800 "John"
> wrote the following and gave me
the chance to write something equally inane:

>My computer crash due to a power surge. I remove the hard
>drive and placed it into the new computer. Windows does
>not detect the hard drive. When I try to boot off the
>windows cd I am getting the following message: Cannot
>detect the biosinfo.inf press r on the next screen. It
>never gets to the next screen. it dies right there.
>
>Any thoughts.

Does the BIOS detect the drive correctly?