HELP, I cant install myHard Drive

[kingkong12312]

I'm trying to install my new 40gig hardrive and I cant. I have been on the phone with the manufacture all day.
OK, first I set the right jumper, hooked up the wires then I went into my bios and selected it to use the cd-rom first and inserted my xp pro disc. Nothing. The manuf. said dont use their software and to get the 6 bootdisc from microsoft. Did that and everything goes fine. It starts formatting and it tells me to put in my xp pro cd and its starts tyo install and then in a little while when its done it says insert xp pro service pack 1 cdso i went back to microsoft and I downloaded the 6 start up discs(boot disc) with xp pro service pack 1 included. Well I go through it all again and when it gets to the same place as before it again asks me for the xp pro service pack pro cd again. I give up, please help, Its a Maxtor 40 gig with amd athlon 1.3 gig and 500+ram, Thanks.

 

[braddds]

SP1 is about 135 mb (it wouldn't fit onto 6, let alone 60, floppy disks). You'll need to download that and put it onto a cd-r or cd/rw before continuing. Unless there is a way you can just cancel/skip this part of the installation. You can always do that later.

Cheers

 

[Jontmke]

Where did you get this CD? I have never had XP ask for the service pack cd.
Also, why are you booting off of floppies? Boot off the cd.
Go into the bios and set the boot order to:
1st floppy
2nd cd-rom
3rd hard drive

Put the cd in the drive, take out the floppy and reboot. It should run the setup off the cd. If it won't boot off the cd you must have a "bad" copy.

By the way, your hard drive is fine. Seems so anyways.

Jon

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