Your telling me you installed a new hard drive and you did not install windows on it?
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| Author: | smackAhoe [ Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:42 pm ] |
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So I got my new Hard Drive today(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822136320) And i was all excited to have it up and running when i finally plug it in it doesnt work it says "Boot Disk Failure, Please Insert Boot Disk And Press Enter" but the problem is i dont have the disk and when i press f11 at boot screen to try and do system recovery nothing happens Does anyone know how i can fix this? |
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| Author: | VMAN [ Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:20 pm ] |
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You need to give us more info, like what exactly you did |
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| Author: | smackAhoe [ Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:31 pm ] |
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their were just 2 cables plugged into the top of my old HD and i unplugged both of them and plugged them into my new HD i think one was a Sata cable and im not sure what the other one was but anyways when i plugged them into my new HD it says that boot disk failure thing and when i cant press f11 when i start up my computer to do a system recovery |
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| Author: | cornholio [ Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:38 pm ] |
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Press F9 or w/e your boot menu button is at the beginning of start up. Then select the main hdd that has windows installed. |
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| Author: | smackAhoe [ Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:52 pm ] |
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cornholio wrote: Press F9 or w/e your boot menu button is at the beginning of start up. Then select the main hdd that has windows installed.
i did and it showed my new WD HD and everything and all the information was correct and i did a status check and it said it was good but idk why i cant use the HD pissing me off |
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| Author: | VMAN [ Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:19 pm ] |
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Did you ever put an OS on your new HD? |
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| Author: | smackAhoe [ Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:34 pm ] |
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VMAN wrote: Did you ever put an OS on your new HD?
Uhhh... yea about that i dont got an OS disk imma probably just dl a version of Xp offa warez-bb would that work? |
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| Author: | cornholio [ Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:36 pm ] |
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Your telling me you installed a new hard drive and you did not install windows on it? |
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| Author: | smackAhoe [ Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:17 am ] |
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cornholio wrote: Your telling me you installed a new hard drive and you did not install windows on it? Well i dont got any disk for any OS's or any system restore disks it was already a pre-built computer with it already installed |
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| Author: | VMAN [ Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:04 pm ] |
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Well you can still use it...just put the old hard drive back in and use the new one as a secondary |
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| Author: | smackAhoe [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:23 pm ] |
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VMAN wrote: Well you can still use it...just put the old hard drive back in and use the new one as a secondary
Can you explain a step-by-step tut on this? and also since my old HD is broken wouldnt my computer still crash? Also my old HD doesnt have the 40-pin connector thats why i dont know how to connect it i will post pics soon |
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