Formatting new hard disc help
25 March 2006, 08:26 PM
#31
Originally Posted by Robocop
Do I need a floppy drive connected up at this point? Tried it with/out but at present not fitted.
As the PC needs to identify both the HDD and the DVD ROM drive
25 March 2006, 08:34 PM
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SATA ONLY to now changed to "Disabled"
Any chance of any screenshots on how you have your devices connected
Where is this in the bios?
Any chance of any screenshots on how you have your devices connected
Where is this in the bios?
25 March 2006, 08:40 PM
#34
Originally Posted by Robocop
SATA ONLY to now changed to "Disabled"
Any chance of any screenshots on how you have your devices connected
Where is this in the bios?
Any chance of any screenshots on how you have your devices connected
Where is this in the bios?
When you disabled the SATA ONLY did ou save the BIOS settings and let the PC power back up again ?
25 March 2006, 08:43 PM
#35
Originally Posted by Robocop
SATA ONLY to now changed to "Disabled" and XP install has come up 
THANK YOU
25 March 2006, 08:48 PM
#38
Originally Posted by Robocop
Pity you not from down my neck of the woods, as it would have been my treat.
My sincere thanks for all your help.
Kevin
My sincere thanks for all your help.
Kevin
Yep if I were in your neck of the woods then I would have popped round instead. Hopefully you learnt something from this. Oh just need to bear in mind that if you get any SATA HDDs then you need to re-enable that option in the BIOS.
25 March 2006, 08:50 PM
#39
Originally Posted by Robocop
last thing, do chose to create partition or delete or set windows XP on selected?
If yo are deleting then you need to select delete and then create a new partition.
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