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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.

08-20-2006, 12:37 AM	#2 (permalink)
sPlAtOiD Monster Techie Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 1,630	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. __________________ CPU Type QuadCore Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 2533 MHz (9 x 281) Motherboard Name MSI P35 Diamond / P35D3 Platinum (MS-7356) Motherboard Chipset Intel Bearlake P35 System Memory 3328 MB (DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM) BIOS Type AMI (11/02/07) Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX (768 MB) Audio Adapter Creative Audigy 2 ZS (SB0350) Sound Card Total Size 763.8 GB (658.2 GB free) Network Adapter Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (192.168.1.100)