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Hard Drive Issue
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Exactly what is it you did, to it? did you install it as a Slave in the computer, did you install it as a master, and reinstall windows?? Can you give us a few more details on what happened?
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
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Hi
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.
Thanks
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.
Thanks
since NTLDR is a windows only thing, i would assume the Linux live Cd isn't even getting read. Did you change the boot order in the BIOS so it will boot form the CD first?
Was the new hard drive pre-owned?, it seems to me its trying to boot into a windows installation and can't find those files.
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
Was the new hard drive pre-owned?, it seems to me its trying to boot into a windows installation and can't find those files.
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
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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.
Any idea's
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.
Any idea's
Does the BIOS see the drive? If the BIOS sees it, it might need to be formatted. Or it might be in a format that Win98 is unable to read like WinXP's NTFS.
You'll have to go into fdisk and delete all partitions and recreate them, and then format them in FAT32, so Win98 can see them.
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
You'll have to go into fdisk and delete all partitions and recreate them, and then format them in FAT32, so Win98 can see them.
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
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From within fdisk. choose the 5th option, and change to the correct drive. With that selected, delete all partitions, and recreate them again.
Since its going to be a little difficult to walk you through it, use this guide, and you should be o.k. it has screen captures so you know what the screen should look like as you are following it.
Black Viper's fdisk Usage Guide
If you have any questions post back.
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
Since its going to be a little difficult to walk you through it, use this guide, and you should be o.k. it has screen captures so you know what the screen should look like as you are following it.
Black Viper's fdisk Usage Guide
If you have any questions post back.
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
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