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Re: New Hard Drive

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Nov 22nd, 2004

maybe you can help me out... I accidentally formatted my hard drive on my pc. It is now completley blank, as if I just purchased a brand new hard drive... What my question is for you, how could I install an operating system back on the hard drive? The only thing I can think of is hooking the hard drive up to this computer, and booting up in dos...? and trying to see if that works... can you please help me...

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Re: New Hard Drive

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Nov 22nd, 2004

If the bios only supports a 137GB HD, then what you can do is partition the HD with one partition as 137GB and the other partition as a 23GB partition. Only do this if your BIOS only supports up to 137GB, otherwise just use one partition.

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Re: New Hard Drive

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Nov 23rd, 2004

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Originally Posted by DFWDRUMMER

maybe you can help me out... I accidentally formatted my hard drive on my pc. It is now completley blank, as if I just purchased a brand new hard drive... What my question is for you, how could I install an operating system back on the hard drive? The only thing I can think of is hooking the hard drive up to this computer, and booting up in dos...? and trying to see if that works... can you please help me...

DFWDRUMMER, you should start a new thread. What OS do you want to install? For XP, see this thread:
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread6632.html

Links to help you help yourself :

Protect Your PC & Avoid Infections -- http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread27519.html

Cleanup Procedures & Tools -- http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread27570.html

Infection Removal & HijackThis Use -- http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread28196.html

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Re: New Hard Drive

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Nov 24th, 2004

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Originally Posted by jifiii

If the bios only supports a 137GB HD, then what you can do is partition the HD with one partition as 137GB and the other partition as a 23GB partition. Only do this if your BIOS only supports up to 137GB, otherwise just use one partition.

Not right... If your bios sees only 137 G, this is how much you will be able to partition; but, since your motherboard supports a 2,2 GHz Celeron, I think the bios supports HDDs bigger than 160 Gigs