Ahh. The drives haven't been formatted yet...fdisk is availabe booting from a floppy. I know there are boot CDs out there that will do this for you. I can't think of any offhand, one of the other members should be able to help you with that.
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Ahh. The drives haven't been formatted yet...fdisk is availabe booting from a floppy. I know there are boot CDs out there that will do this for you. I can't think of any offhand, one of the other members should be able to help you with that.
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No the drives have not been formatted. I thought this was what I needed to do that:
Operating System DVD
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
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Is this not a boot disk?
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http://www.bootdisk.com/
Your XP disc should be able partition and format the drives.
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The cd says it's for software reinstallation and repair only. Is that the same as starting from scratch with new hard drives?
Jim
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You may need to download a boot disk from knight's link and use that to format the drives.
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Thanks, I will try the bootme disk.
Also, I tried another disk from my other laptop that had windows xp home edition. I got the same results. After it went through the entire formatting thing, it said it was unable to format the partition.
Maybe I got a bad hard drive?
I try the bootme and see what happens.
Jim
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That disn't work eather
Jim
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I just don't get it. I finally put the original hard drives back in (I didn't even know which one went where!) and it took off as if nothing ever happened.
Works fine, but I really want to put the bigger hhd's in. Maybe the Seagates were bad???????????
Jim
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I know this operation is elementary to you guys, but am stumped. I may not have downloaded the right boot disk(windows ME?). After trying 2 different O.S. systerms disks I'm still unsuccessful. I put the old hdd's back in to make sure something else wasn"t happening. Windows runs fine. I think I will return the Seagate hdd's and try again with something else if I can.
JIm
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OK I think I found my problem, maybe.
I didn't know there were supposed to be jumpers on the connecting pins. Are the new hard drives supposed to come with them? I don't have my old ones here to look at.
Jim
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