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by sabrinadane

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I just intalled a new hard drive. It has been detected in Bios. I did a test and it is working fine. I tried to intstall windows XP (and my recovery disk, and the hard drive software) and all that happens is Boot Disk Failure, Please inseart system disk and press enter. (I also removed the jumper on the new drive, as that was a suggestion I read as a solution to the same problem) All to no avail. Please help!!!!

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by 45geek

first boot into the bios setting (should show up on the splash screen when first starting) something like pressing del to enter setup. Then go to "boot" "advanced" it will give the order to go to when booting and ensure the first one is cd-rom or the drive of the device you are inserting the disk...then f10 or "exit and save" and reboot the computer...xp should take you right through with formating the hard drive and everything unless you want to partition the drive yourself.

HAVE FUN!!!!

by sabrinadane

I have the HDD as second boot priority. The HDD and CD/DVD are both detected in the Bios. It still says Disk Boot Failure.

by sue t

possibly you have a bad CD. Try a different bootable CD and see if it works.

by zulfiqar8

May be your cd not a bootable or drive are old

by sabrinadane

Nothing suggested has worked so far. I need more ideas please.

by gary56789

get a hard drive setup disk with the hard drive? If so, you need to run this in order for the BIOS to detect some new drives. If you didn't get one in the package, the manufacturer's website should have one you can download.

Make sure that you use the new ribbon cable to the motherboard that came with the HD (properly inserted into the motherboard)and that the HD is set to Cable Select. Also. some power connectors frequently do not work. Use a different one if necessary from the power supply.

by sabrinadane

It still comes up "disk boot failure." I used the new cables. I'm not sure how to go about the power connector thing. I'm not even sure which cable that it, and I don't have any spare cables laying around. The new hard drive came with a red cable and another one that attatched to one with a bunch of colored cables (I'm guessing that is the power supply). Anyway, I used all the new cable. I would think it has power because the BIOS detected it, but I could be wrong.

by sue t

do you have 1 or 2 hard drives installed? Are they ide or sata drives? If you have 2 make sure they are jumper right. Possibly you have a bad CD drive, do you have another that you can try?

by sabrinadane

It is sata. My CD drive is brand new. Both the CD drive and the HDD are being detected in BIOS. CD/DVD set as first boot priority, HDD is set to second.

by sue t

do you have 1 hard drive installed or 2? Just because a hard drive or a CD drive is new does not mean there isn't something wrong with it. Since it looks like you have access to another computer why don't you take your new hard drive and either install it or connect it as an external drive to the other computer and then right click on my computer and choose manage. In the window that opens you will see an option near the bottom on the left that says disks (not sure if there is more to it)choose this option and you will see the drives connected to the computer. Choose your new hard drive and choose the option to format it. This will tell you if the hard drive is good or not. Also, when you are booting to the cd are you pressing a key when it tells you to if you want to boot to cd? You need to watch the screen because it does not stay there long and if you don't press the key it will try to boot to the hard drive.

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