HondaTuner

Yes, thats where I was, and BIOS recognized the hard drive, and it was the only hard drive connected (so it wouldn't get confused). I said screw it and made it a slave.
and yes it is a legal copy of XP.

Cadracer

mb probably cant boot off it to big of a drive. Or you just got a setting wrong.Remeber the ribbon has 2 connectors.....
The hard drive has to go on the grey one to be the master. Not the blue one......

88crxSi

that doesnt matter.

set it to Master, put the cable in the Primary IDE connector. Set the bios to boot from 1st the CD, then 2nd the HDD, then put the cd in and restart. Delete ALL partitions and re-partition it, format Quick for NTFS and install this ish.

make sure the CD drive is set to Master and have it on the Secondary IDE connector as well.

in the BIOS set all IDE connectors to AUTO.

btw, what mobo/cpu is this thing, 30gig, sounds like an old p4 or AthlonXP.

HondaTuner

^ lol, I already did all of the beforehand and it didn't work. It's a celeron. And BTW, I was thinking maybe the BIOS wouldn't recognize the size of the hard drive, but sure enough it did. And it works fine now.

88crxSi

so you got it working?

HondaTuner

Eh, he wanted Win XP installed on the 300 gig, and the 30 gig to be the secondary because the original was "slow"... well I ran anti-virus, anti-spyware anti-everything and got it running well again... kid had like 200 things startup when windows loaded, no wonder it was so slow... I told him to get more ram too, he only has 256, I told him to upgrade to 512 (thats all the board can support anyways)

88crxSi

so he spend 150 on a 300gb drive to make his pc faster.

heck, he should have bought a gf 6150 board w/ an A64-3200 wouldhave made a MUCH larger difference.

i still dont see how the 300gb wouldnt work though,

HondaTuner

No, not to make his PC faster. He does a lot of photography work and needs extra space. He said his comp was running slower than ever and wanted a fresh start as well...

Yeah I don't see how it wouldn't work either. I think my disk is fubar'd

88crxSi

is it a legit or a burned cd. I had a nice clean legit copy i burned to cd because I slipstreamed SP2 into it and it was popping up missing files and alot of other junk.

HondaTuner

Well, it's a legit burned CD lol. We used them at school all the time, they worked perfectly. I think the disc has one too many scratches on it now.