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thanks for the reply paprazzi i have just moved everything as is from my old system, i just dont understand why it should prevent the hd from even powering up untill i remove both ide cables and reboot?, i have tried plugging in the ide cables when the system is booted, but it just freezes and...

first thanks to the guys that solved my porting new hd into my new system i got it up and running, HOWEVER i have this very strange problem in the respect that my hd will not even power up untill i remove the ide cables from my dvd writer and cd rewriter, this of course boots windows fine, but...

thanks all for the time and knowledge, looks as if i might be able to get away without a reformat, i will keep you posted on my findings, once again thanks for your time and effort i really apreciate it.

thanks for the reply edfair, so what were saying is in reality is that i will have to reformat the hd and re-install windows xp?. whats the best procedure to do this on a new build system as in my case with an existing hd.

just lateral thinking of my own, would this be because i have an ntfs filing system not fat32?

forgot to mention, the hd is a ibm deskster 80 gig

built myself a new system (amd athlon xp1800 256mb mem), everything great bios detects hard drive no probs, however windows xp will not boot, it gives me a list of options:- start with command prompt, start with safe mode, start with last known good config, start with windows normally etc, i...