Repalced the hard drive in a Dell Optiplex 620 tower with a 750 GB SATA hard drive. When trying to load the OS (Windows XP Pro) I get the screen in the attachement. (Sorry about the quality...hope you get the jest of it)
What am I doing wrong? I thought windows would self load.:banghead:
I can't open the attachment. what does it say? have you changed boot order in the bios? you are likely using a sata drive and the drivers are not native to XP. you can load them from floppy or changed the sata settings in bios to IDE.
Sorry about the attachment. Basically it starts with the Phoenix ROM BIOS Plus version 1.1 A11, The copyright message, computer model, etc. Then it says "Performing Automatic IDE Configuration....."
Drive 0isk Drive
Drive 4: CD-Rom Divice
Floppy Disk Seek Failure
Invalid configuration information - please run SETUP program
Strike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run the setup utility
/boot.config: -D
Ordered exactly the same part number drive that was in it origionally, so I didn't think anythin would have to be changed or adjusted. I did try running setup and changing the boot sequence to the CDDVD drive first, hard drive second but that did not work either so I switched it back to the origional way it was set up. It does not have a floppy drive and was purchased used so the only thing that came with it was the OS CD, no driver disk.
How would I change the sata settings inb bios to IDE?...The new drive says it is sata.
Problem is the drive has FreeBSD installed on it at the boot loader sectors and Windows can't install to a drive that has Linux already installed. Wipe the drive for approx 5 min with DBAN that will clear the boot and MBR and allow you to install Windows on it.
Yes you have to boot to cd drive. Do you have a Windows XP disk or Dell Reinstallation cd for Windows XP? If the answers are yes then either the cd drive is NG, the cd is NG or the hard drive is NG.Here is how you install Windows XP, please read it: XP Clean Install
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