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Cian
In Dec. 2005 I built myself a brand new PC from scratch...got a brand new
motherboard which just came out that year, got my 700W powersupply, super
duper graphics card and a HUGE sharp looking case to put it all in. But, I
wasnt going to buy new Harddrives or DVD/CD ROM drives because I previously
bought a Dell Insperion XBS back in 2000 and still had everything from this
computer. My windows XP disk was the same one that came with my Dell in
2000. Everything installed on my new computer and life was great.
Sometime earlier this year I managed to get a virus/trojan horse which
totally screwed up my hard drive (40GB Western Digital IDE HD-from my 2000
Dell). So my desktop has been down for a bunch of months (thank god for my
apple laptop) and now i'm trying to put the pieces back together on my
MONSTER desktop.
Now that I'm trying to reinstall windows XP, I'm getting the message that
"windows setup can not detect any hard drives" when I get to a certain point
during installation. Why would i have this problem suddenly now using the
same disk to install windows that I used when I first built my pc in Dec
2005? I realize this disk is quite old, pre-service pack 1 even - but I
didnt have this problem in 2005. I searched google and found some others
with similar problems, but didnt quite understand their solutions (most of
the problems dealt with SATA HD's while mine are EIDE). I also read this
microsoft article: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314859
which relates to the problem. Why would I need to install extra drivers
(which arent on the xp disk) now when I didnt have to previously? Could the
virus/trojan screwed something up I dont know about? I've checked my Bios,
the Hard drives are being detected correctly (i also tried to install on a
20GB Western Digital EIDE HD and getting the same problem - this HD hasnt had
any virus problems) and I've checked the boot order and that seems fine as
well.
Barring the virus screwing up something I dont know about, could these two
hard drives be totally fried? I have 3 other Western Digital EIDE HD's
(sizes 160GB, 250Gb &250GB) but these are for data storage only and have
never been used for an OS (and frankly I cant afford to lose the data in an
attempt to see if the problem would be gone using one of these drives).
Also, I dont have any floppies that came with these hard drives - I never
ever needed them for anything in the 20 years now that i've been using PC's
(and installing my own hard drives), plus the only pc with a floppy drive is
the one I cant get windows on.
In the event that this is not a problem with some other part of the pc which
I'm not familiar with, should I buy a new Hard drive from the store and see
if it works then, or buy an updated windows xp set from a store keeping my
older hard drives?
Thanks for taking the time to try and help me.
motherboard which just came out that year, got my 700W powersupply, super
duper graphics card and a HUGE sharp looking case to put it all in. But, I
wasnt going to buy new Harddrives or DVD/CD ROM drives because I previously
bought a Dell Insperion XBS back in 2000 and still had everything from this
computer. My windows XP disk was the same one that came with my Dell in
2000. Everything installed on my new computer and life was great.
Sometime earlier this year I managed to get a virus/trojan horse which
totally screwed up my hard drive (40GB Western Digital IDE HD-from my 2000
Dell). So my desktop has been down for a bunch of months (thank god for my
apple laptop) and now i'm trying to put the pieces back together on my
MONSTER desktop.
Now that I'm trying to reinstall windows XP, I'm getting the message that
"windows setup can not detect any hard drives" when I get to a certain point
during installation. Why would i have this problem suddenly now using the
same disk to install windows that I used when I first built my pc in Dec
2005? I realize this disk is quite old, pre-service pack 1 even - but I
didnt have this problem in 2005. I searched google and found some others
with similar problems, but didnt quite understand their solutions (most of
the problems dealt with SATA HD's while mine are EIDE). I also read this
microsoft article: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314859
which relates to the problem. Why would I need to install extra drivers
(which arent on the xp disk) now when I didnt have to previously? Could the
virus/trojan screwed something up I dont know about? I've checked my Bios,
the Hard drives are being detected correctly (i also tried to install on a
20GB Western Digital EIDE HD and getting the same problem - this HD hasnt had
any virus problems) and I've checked the boot order and that seems fine as
well.
Barring the virus screwing up something I dont know about, could these two
hard drives be totally fried? I have 3 other Western Digital EIDE HD's
(sizes 160GB, 250Gb &250GB) but these are for data storage only and have
never been used for an OS (and frankly I cant afford to lose the data in an
attempt to see if the problem would be gone using one of these drives).
Also, I dont have any floppies that came with these hard drives - I never
ever needed them for anything in the 20 years now that i've been using PC's
(and installing my own hard drives), plus the only pc with a floppy drive is
the one I cant get windows on.
In the event that this is not a problem with some other part of the pc which
I'm not familiar with, should I buy a new Hard drive from the store and see
if it works then, or buy an updated windows xp set from a store keeping my
older hard drives?
Thanks for taking the time to try and help me.