ohGrFreak
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I RMA'd my western digital 250 gig harddrive and I just got it back today. At first, the comp couldn't find the drive, but that's just because I didn't format yet. So I format with Partition Magic and then I make sure and format again with the XP disc. Once installing XP Home, it rebooted and booted fine from the harddrive with the new freshly formatted and freshlly installed windows XP.
i then shut it off because I had some other things to do around the house, and I come back and turn it on and it can't find a boot device. I then goto the bios and figure that the harddrive is just not first priority, but it's not even listed now.
is there some way to force it to read the harddrive, i do not wish to reformat and reinstall XP everytime I need to use the comp, pretty time consuming, LOL.
thanks
Matthew
i then shut it off because I had some other things to do around the house, and I come back and turn it on and it can't find a boot device. I then goto the bios and figure that the harddrive is just not first priority, but it's not even listed now.
is there some way to force it to read the harddrive, i do not wish to reformat and reinstall XP everytime I need to use the comp, pretty time consuming, LOL.
thanks
Matthew