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Pete - 30 May 2006 03:49 GMT

I installed a knew hard drive in my computer and had problems transferring
previous install of windows so I decided to reinstall windows. However when I
start my computer with the cd in it begins to boot from the cd and gets to
where it says windows is checking the hardware and stops. I put the old drive
back in and the cd boots normorally and comes to the screen asking if I want
to install windows.

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Shenan Stanley - 30 May 2006 04:12 GMT

> I installed a knew hard drive in my computer and had problems
> transferring previous install of windows so I decided to reinstall
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> boots normorally and comes to the screen asking if I want to
> install windows.

This "new" hard drive - does it connect in the same way as the old?
Is it recognized properly in the BIOS?

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Pete - 31 May 2006 02:37 GMT

The new drive is reconized in the bios. Both drives are parallel ATA although
the old one is ATA/66 and the new one is ATA/133.

> > I installed a knew hard drive in my computer and had problems
> > transferring previous install of windows so I decided to reinstall
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> This "new" hard drive - does it connect in the same way as the old?
> Is it recognized properly in the BIOS?

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