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Vista install on old crashed hard drive
I need to replace the existing (the original) 30 GB hard drive in my Presario Model 7470, purchased in April 2000. 1. What kind of drive do I need to purchase and what restrictions are there on the drive? I think the drive is an IDE drive, but I don't know what the system ROM version is. 2.

What is using so much hard drive space?
Ken Blake, MVP kbl...@this.is.an.invalid.domain microsoft public windowsxp general Dean Hinson wrote: Further more testing reveals that a NTFS drive in a USB enclosure maybe the problem. However, it this a bug or an undocumented feature? Shouldn't USB enclosures for hard drives handle NTFS partitions?

changing ports install hard drive
I simply unplug the minicontroller from the hard drive, and plug it into the scsi device I'm trying to use (i've tried several). I boot from the ICD floppy disk for my controller, and at bootup it gives the error: cannot install hard drive handler clock not present then when I try to run any disk utilities such as

Can a hard drive be physically damaged due to power loss at ...
As you have a full XP CD, then put your Dell Win2000 out of reach, boot on the XP CD (check you BIOS has boot on CD as the first boot drive) and format the hard drive (an option at the start of the XP install), install XP from scratch and use that. When it boots, just let it use the standard 800x600 screen settings

Hard to install hard drive?
I get past the "loading software" and then the "windows" progess bar screens, and the screen goes to a black screed with nothing but a mouse arrow on it. Please help me figure out how to install Vista onto this Old IDE 120 gig hard drive. The pc meets the minimum requirements on the Vista box. Thank you!

trying to install a dos 6.22 formatted hardrive and load with ...
Neither of these options seem to be present in windows 2000 so how do I get add/format a new hard disk (slave drive). I think I need to run 'Computer management' but when I run it it doesn't start (mouse just flickers for a second). How can I fix/install computer management? In the end I downloaded a windows 98

install hard drive, needs dos partition?
On the hard drive, it says Master/Single is on, Slave is off. Does this matter? Thanks a lot. qq Alright, you want to slave the maxtor on your win98 box, right? On the hard drive, it says Master/Single is on, Slave is off. I'm guessing you're talking about the maxtor that you want to slave, not the primary that's

partition hard drive
The hard drive "Size" figure is the most meaningful one, but "Capacity" will do as an alternative (they are the same figure counted using a different interpretation of K/M/G). disk is opening but is not starts but his own. I must clik on the setup by myself to start install. MAC 9.2 is running at the moment and

Need to Replace Hard Drive - Presario 7470
It's a 3.5 year old personal computer (Gateway, with a 20 Gigabyte, 5M Ultra ATA hard drive). I ended up powering down, when starting up received error messages and then a failure to reach the Windows display. I ultimately struggled through a Scanddisk from a Dos prompt and was able to recover most, but not all,

Maximum hard drive upgrade
A patch or something so that I can install a single 500G drive as my master? There is no way to utilize all of the hard drive space with your XP RTM gold install disk. However, slipstreaming it with Service Pack 2 is extremely easy and then you can install with that new disk you create. How to slipstream sp2 into

New hard drive install
jim jimlin...@worldnet.att.net alt sys pc-clone gateway2000 I removed a hard drive from a computer with xp installed on the computer,,, this hard drive was the slave drive, so it didn't have the xp os on it, the drive was used for file storage,,,, when I tried to install windows me on it, I got a message saying I

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
The CD drive is amazingly enough, easier to replace then the Hard Drive! (And if your running Tiger, the CD drive has no incompatibilities. Works Perfect!) Just a thought, as my eMac's CD drive was on its last leg a couple weeks ago when I decided to install the new used Hard Drive. Ok, now, as for restore disks.

Need to replace hard drive
I do know that i will have to install the old OS b4 i can upgrade again to Vista! Hi Heath, Doing a clean install instead may not help performance with the extra hard drive space, but it will reduce the possibility of a compatiblity issue with any remnants of the old OS left over in the Vista installation.

Planning to Install New Hard Drive Questions
I would like to backup by entire C: drive on the W98 machine, so when I install the XP upgrade, if anything goes wrong, I can pull the files back into W98 if I have I also have a laptop with XP and a 90 GB hard drive and a wireless router. A friend set up a wireless network so I can print through my Windows 98

Easiest Way To Replace Hard Drive
Can I install a 500GBor 320Gb drive with no problem? Maybe. Maybe not. As the IDE Drive goes the way of the 5-1/4" Floppy, and technology evolves, it has become more common than not to find a new IDE Hard Drive that will not boot in a 5xxx ReplayTV. It has nothing to do with cache size, but the firmware on the

Hard Drive Temps
Get a hard drive diagnostic routine from the www site of the disk drive manufacturer - it might indicate what has gone wrong with the installation. If the hard drive is not working or is not formatted the only option is to install a floppy drive that works, or use a CD drive and bootable CD.

How to install Hard Drive?
robbo robbowat...@btinternet.com 24hoursupport helpdesk http://www.cheap-computers-guide.com/install-hard-drive-CDROM.html "~Wayne~" My hard drive crashed and I had to get a new one. what needs to be done (if anything) before I can install an operating system and how do I go about doing it.

Install HArd Drive
In the meantime I have reformatted the secondary drive because I could not access anything there anyway. Would it be feasible to install only the old original hard drive if there is no chance it would damage anything and just boot to it and copy all data to a DVD or CD? Albert Albert: Well you could do that and

Standby/hibernate problem
Thorsten Matzner tmatz...@gmx.net microsoft public windowsxp basics microsoft public windowsnt misc chou...@NOSPAMnetscape.net (Choupyt) wrote: Before upgrading to XP Pro from NT 4.0 Workstation, I would very much like to add another hard drive to my PC. Is my assumption correct that I should do so after the

upgrade series 2
Andrew E eckric...@msn.com microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment Install XP cd,boot from cd,recovery,(if asked for password press enter on keyboard),if the disk has a letter great, if not,type:DiskPart Then type:list volume (this gets volume new hd info to format),once obtained,type:EXIT Back at recovery