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fane · 10-06-2006, 02:27 PM

Hello everyone,
Last December 26th we purchased a new 250 Gb. WD hard drive. Haven't really gotten around to installing it until now. My dad said he installed it but it would only load Windows ME.
(We had Windows ME and upgraded directly to XP, it would prompt when the system booted up and you would just have to press enter)
Only now, Dad has installed the drive and there is no prompt; it just takes you right into Windows ME.
He installed the 250gb drive by removing the 30gb drive (The 30gb drive had ME installed on it, but he copied the files over the drives. Not sure how he did that..) He says if we put the 30gb drive back in and swap out the 250gb, it runs fine.
We also have an 80gb drive, and a 120gb (Its partitioned into two 56gb drives) drive installed on the computer, so there are no free slots.
The only thing I can think of that seems wrong is that he didn't use their cord, but he says it won't matter because he has the same one. It says on the instructions, make sure you use the cord that comes with it, but Dad says the old one is identical.

Thanks for listening, I'd appreciate any suggestions, as I'm typing this from my terrible computer and I'm unable to use the other one at all.

10-06-2006, 02:27 PM	#1 (permalink)
fane Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2 OS: Windows XP	OS not loading Hello everyone, Last December 26th we purchased a new 250 Gb. WD hard drive. Haven't really gotten around to installing it until now. My dad said he installed it but it would only load Windows ME. (We had Windows ME and upgraded directly to XP, it would prompt when the system booted up and you would just have to press enter) Only now, Dad has installed the drive and there is no prompt; it just takes you right into Windows ME. He installed the 250gb drive by removing the 30gb drive (The 30gb drive had ME installed on it, but he copied the files over the drives. Not sure how he did that..) He says if we put the 30gb drive back in and swap out the 250gb, it runs fine. We also have an 80gb drive, and a 120gb (Its partitioned into two 56gb drives) drive installed on the computer, so there are no free slots. The only thing I can think of that seems wrong is that he didn't use their cord, but he says it won't matter because he has the same one. It says on the instructions, make sure you use the cord that comes with it, but Dad says the old one is identical. Thanks for listening, I'd appreciate any suggestions, as I'm typing this from my terrible computer and I'm unable to use the other one at all.