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reformating a Hard Drive...first time

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by treefrog999

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took HDD out of Compaq Evo D500 to wipe and reuse.
reformatted fat32...reinstalled and restore disk is not being read/loaded.....CDROM drive light blinks once,then floppy light stays on.
upper left screen shows blinking cursor where memory counts up before loading windowsXP.
Unit no longer counts up memory and I cannot access F1,2,8,10,or 12 by keyboard,so screen says:'Strike F1 for recovery.....what did I do wrong?should I try NTFS?
I'm lost in the Twilight Zone,here!

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by mjd420nova

By your description, it sounds like the CD ROM is holding the system from starting properly. Go back to the original setup and confirm this, if it works then, the new HD jumpers aren't set right or the data cable is not plugged in right, something is holding the CD ROM from getting past the hardware checks.

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