They are set as Auto.
BIOS was set to boot from CD-ROM, but changed this to Hard Drive. There were several options HD-0, 1, 2 and 3. I tried all of these to be sure.
I took it out of an old machine and just put it in the new machine. When I turned it on it tried to boot, but came up as as invalid system disk.
The new machine, well its quite old. It'd for my mum, who wants a computer. Before we spend money, i thought see how she gets on with this. It's a...
Hi
Hope someone can help.
I had a hard drive on an old PC with Windows 98 loaded and this booted perfectly.
I installed the Hard Drive into another computer, but it didn't boot up Windows.
Any idea's of what i need to do???
Thanks
The Hard Drive is seen in the BIOS and also divice manager in windows, but not in the My Computer.
I have run FDISK but that only comes up with 1 divice the one I'm currently using. THis onw is set up with FAT32.
Thanks for your responce
I've set the new hard drive as slave and used the old was as master and managed to boot in the old windows version. which i will continue to use now for a while.
The hard drive was pre-owned.
The problem now is that windows dosen't see the hard drive, it's windows 98...
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I brought a new hard drive, it is the only hard drive in the pc now. I used the cabling from the other and out it in the new one.
I set the jumper settings to Single Drive as per the Western Digital Website, but everytime it comes up with the error.
I'm booting from a Linux Live CD.
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Hi
I have just brought a Western Digital 40GB Hard Drive, and I have put into the computer, but I get the following error
NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del.
I am getting very frustrated with this and nearly ready to chuck it out the window.
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