I just recently got a computer from my grandparents, and its a windows xp, 2005 and the motherboard was fried, but I salvaged everything that I could, including the hardrive. So I tried to add it to my new computer witch is also an xp, and I plugged it in, restarted it, and it came up with boot disk error. After that I restarted it again, and right away in the begining I pressed f-2 and it went to setup. I tried to adjust the secondary drive, but I think that the more I tinkered with it, the deeper I dug myself into a hole. So I just gave up, saved my settings, unplugged the secont drive, and restarted it. I dont think I should of saved the settings because now it just comes up with boot disk error at startup, can anyone help me? or am I screwed?:yawn:
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Jump to Posti know, but i have to say it anyway ,why did you save the settings ! when in drought always chose cancel or exit with out saving changes , you should be able to hit f2 again and go in and chose default settings and save the changes .
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Jump to Posti plugged the new hardrive onto the existing jumper cable, because there were two ports for 2 hardrives,
yes but what do you have the jumpers on the harddrive set to
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