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Tony-C · 06-17-2008, 02:27 AM

Apparently my old hard drive is having some read disk error so I'm considering buying a new hard disk for it, I really don't know if it can be fixed. Either way that's not the point. My question is since it's a new hard drive it won't have an OS, right? So does that mean I'll have to boot it from windows xp install cd? The problem here is I think my cd drive is broken, so I would have to buy a new one as well. Does anyone now more or less how that process takes place (booting for a blank 'new' drive). Thanks for any help it is appreciated.

06-17-2008, 02:27 AM	#1 (permalink)
Tony-C Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 15 OS: Vista SP1	New Hard drive Apparently my old hard drive is having some read disk error so I'm considering buying a new hard disk for it, I really don't know if it can be fixed. Either way that's not the point. My question is since it's a new hard drive it won't have an OS, right? So does that mean I'll have to boot it from windows xp install cd? The problem here is I think my cd drive is broken, so I would have to buy a new one as well. Does anyone now more or less how that process takes place (booting for a blank 'new' drive). Thanks for any help it is appreciated.