Hard Drive problems...

[Unreal Tuner]

Hello all,

I recently purchased a 120gig hard drive from Seagate for a computer that i am building. Nothing special just want it for simple basic things (Office and to burn cds). I first put it in my primary computer as a slave and formatted and partitioned it with Partiton Magic 8. I then copied over files the slave so that I could boot from it. I then proceeded to test it out and boot from it but it did not work saying that there was an error. I then formatted it and left the slave empty and tried to boot from my windows xp disk, but that did not work either. Somehow I don't remember this being hard before So I am obviously forgetting to do something. Any help?

Thanks

 

[TheMajor]

You can't just copy the Windows files to a new disk and boot from it. You have to re-install Windows or do a repair install.

 

[Unreal Tuner]

Wouldn't that come up when I put the disk in at start up though?

 

[TheMajor]

Yes

 

[Unreal Tuner]

that seems to be my problem. The setup screen does not come up. It just gives me an error message. Should I just format and partition the drive, then restart it with the disk in? Would that work?

 

[TheMajor]

You have to configure your BIOS to boot from the CD drive. Press DEL to enter the BIOS (on most computers).

 

[Unreal Tuner]

Thanks...I will try this again