If I bought a new hard drive and WinXP Home, could I swap out my PC's current HD for the new one and replace it as my new C:\ Drive, and proceed to installing Windows onto it? Or would I even be able to install Windows onto a new hard drive without some other special manufacturer tricks?
Hiead
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 Jun 19 2006, 1:23 pm
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But why would you want to take out your current hdd? Just put it in as a slave and you have all that extra space:)
If you do install on the new hdd, be sure to have your drivers ready for the hardware | |
Crispy wrote:
To install an operating system onto a blank hard drive, all you need is to be able to boot from the installation CD (or floppy disk!). If your computer can boot from CDs then you'll be fine. (All modern computers can.) WinXP is bootable, right? Since, after all, neither my Win95 nor my Win98 discs are. Hiead | |
Hiead wrote:
Crispy wrote: Windows 95 and 98 (as well as 98 Second Edition), they need a floppy boot disk to boot up the DOS application so you can then run an installation of them. As opposed to Windows XP (Home and Professional), the installation disk is directly bootable, and as Crispy said you may need to re-order your boot devices list which is found in your BIOS settings. --Lee | |
You may need to change the boot order settings in the BIOS to make it boot from CD though.