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by akbarshafi

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I replaced Hard disk(15GB) IDE (Win 2000 Pro), with a new harddisk (40GB)in my computer Pentium II. when it boots it display message that replace the disk in A\. Let me know how to solve the problem.

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by roadstar

If you have replaced your harddrive for another, have you pressed del key to change the CMos, if so click on auto and it will find your new drive, if you have done this have you run fdisk from a bootable disk in the floppy, if you are putting a disk in the a: and it says change the disk it is not a boot disk, if this is not your problem have you run fdisk to make the partition, Fdisk will say larger drive click y then select 1 to make the partition press yes to both answers, then press escape and reboot with the disk still in the a: then format c: This then makes this new harddrive ready, Then select D: or E: as cdrom and install your win 2000 (Enjoy)
Note Do not change anything in your Cmos if it was running OK just get it to find your new drive.

by thechas

If you just installed the new drive in place of the old drive, roadstars answer will get you started.
You will need to re-install your Operating system, and all software.

You need a Windows boot / startup disk for your operating system to setup the drive.
Or, with W2K, if your system supports boot from Cd, you can just boot from the W2K CD and install Windows.

If you used a copy utility to copy the old drive onto the new drive, here is what you need to do to make the new drive an activeboot drive.

First, verify that the drive is found by the BIOS. It should display the drive type and size on the screen after the POST process.
If the BIOS doesn't find the drive, you may need to set the jumpers on the back of the drive. Many drives need to be setup differently when used as a single or as a master with slave present.

Boot to the boot floppy.
type fdisk and press enter from the dos prompt.
answer yes to enable large drive support.
use option 2 to set the primary partition as the active partition.
Exit fdisk.
Re-boot if it is suggested.

For the next step, it is CRITICAL that the boot disk be the correct disk for your version of Windows!!!
From the dos prompt, type sys c: press enter
This copies the system files onto the root of the hard drive, and makes the drive bootable.

Chas

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