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sPlAtOiD · 08-20-2006, 12:37 AM

You probably need to put a new active dos partition back on the hard drive. Does your bios see the new hard drive? If you have a win 98 boot floppy disk you can boot with that and type fdisk from the A promptgo to the option 4 and see if you have any partitions. you can delete the partitions just follow the instructions. Then slect option 1 create a new dos active partition. Just follow the instructions i think you just answer yes, yes and when thats done reboot with your windows disk in and reinstall.

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sPlAtOiD Monster Techie Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 1,612	You probably need to put a new active dos partition back on the hard drive. Does your bios see the new hard drive? If you have a win 98 boot floppy disk you can boot with that and type fdisk from the A promptgo to the option 4 and see if you have any partitions. you can delete the partitions just follow the instructions. Then slect option 1 create a new dos active partition. Just follow the instructions i think you just answer yes, yes and when thats done reboot with your windows disk in and reinstall. __________________ MSI K8NEO4 Ultra PCI Express x16: BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768 Mb AMD DualCore AMD Opteron 185, 2600 MHz (13 x 200) Memory Corsair2046 MB (DDR SDRAM) Dual Channel 320 Western Digital IDE Drive Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller Windows XP Por SP2