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I have a Dell Dimensio
1.7 G Pentium
512 MB RA
Windows X
AIT Radean 850
20G Seagate H
My hard drive was starting to fill up, so I went out and bought a 120G Western Digital HD from Best Buy this weekend. I wanted to do a complete copy of my old drive, and make this new 120G HD my new main drive
I went to the Western Digital website, and got directions to do this. I first installed the Data Lifeguard software. I then shut down, and installed the new hard drive (With the jumper set to slave) on a different IDE cable ( I unhooked my CD-ROM, and used that IDE cable). Re-started windows, and windows saw that there was a new Hard Drive. I started up Data Lifeguard software, and followed directions for setting up the new drive, copying data, and making the new hard drive a bootable hard drive. The software looked like it was going along, and doing its business, when all of a sudden, the program just disappeared. No error message or anything. The window that was open, just went away. This happened not long after starting, so I knew that it couldn't have finsished the copy.
I then shut down the computer, unhooked the new hard drive, and I was going to get back into windows to go online, and look at the directions again. I powered on the computer, with the new hard drive NOT hooked up. The windows XP screen came up (The one with the green light going back and forth), and everything looked fine. Then it came to the screen where you can select which user to log in. You know the one I'm talking about. Its blue, and has a Windows XP logo, and in the bottom left, there is a button that says "shutdown" and usually it has four (four is default I believe) pictures and user name for you to click on and log into windows. Well, NONE of the buttons were there. It had the nice blue screen with the nice windows XP logo there, but NO buttons to log into windows. There was no button to shutdown the computer.
Whats going on here? Can anyone help me out? Will a system restore fix it?
1.7 G Pentium
512 MB RA
Windows X
AIT Radean 850
20G Seagate H
My hard drive was starting to fill up, so I went out and bought a 120G Western Digital HD from Best Buy this weekend. I wanted to do a complete copy of my old drive, and make this new 120G HD my new main drive
I went to the Western Digital website, and got directions to do this. I first installed the Data Lifeguard software. I then shut down, and installed the new hard drive (With the jumper set to slave) on a different IDE cable ( I unhooked my CD-ROM, and used that IDE cable). Re-started windows, and windows saw that there was a new Hard Drive. I started up Data Lifeguard software, and followed directions for setting up the new drive, copying data, and making the new hard drive a bootable hard drive. The software looked like it was going along, and doing its business, when all of a sudden, the program just disappeared. No error message or anything. The window that was open, just went away. This happened not long after starting, so I knew that it couldn't have finsished the copy.
I then shut down the computer, unhooked the new hard drive, and I was going to get back into windows to go online, and look at the directions again. I powered on the computer, with the new hard drive NOT hooked up. The windows XP screen came up (The one with the green light going back and forth), and everything looked fine. Then it came to the screen where you can select which user to log in. You know the one I'm talking about. Its blue, and has a Windows XP logo, and in the bottom left, there is a button that says "shutdown" and usually it has four (four is default I believe) pictures and user name for you to click on and log into windows. Well, NONE of the buttons were there. It had the nice blue screen with the nice windows XP logo there, but NO buttons to log into windows. There was no button to shutdown the computer.
Whats going on here? Can anyone help me out? Will a system restore fix it?