Jeff

I'm running a P-4 with Windows XP and I'm looking to reformat my harddrive. I actually use two of them, but I move everything I want to keep to the 2nd one and hope to reformat the drive with windows installed on it. I disconnect the 2nd drive when reformatting after my brother accidently reformatted both drive. Anyway, I set the BIOS to boot from CDROM first, and when the XP installation comes up, I choose to Install windows. Then it says it can't find a harddrive and I have to restart. So I can't get past this. I appreciate anyhelp, and apologize if this doesn't make sense as I'm in a rush. Thank you.

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glytch

Are you sure you:
A) Disconnected the secondary drive?
B) Checked the jumper settings on the main harddrive? Sometimes there is a "Master with slave present" setting, and of course, if you're only using one drive, you don't want to set it to that.

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Artsemis

Glytch beat me to it I'd bet money this is a jumper problem.

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Jeff

Shooooot. Easy as that. THanks guys.

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For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
--Charles Bukowski