I get the error message " ERROR, HARD DISK DRIVES NOT INSTALLED"everytime i try to install windows. HELP
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During installation of Windows you were prompted to press "F6" to install any SATA or 3rd part RAID drivers. Try reinstalling again, and when you come to that prompt, put the floppy containing your SATA drivers into your floppy disk drive. \n\np.s. WARNING: The power supply has absolutely nothing to do with it. DO NOT change the voltage settings on your power supply, as you can possibly fry your motherboard if the settings are not correct. If you live in North America, the voltage settings should be 110/115. If you live in North America, and you change it to 220...there's a chance you will be saying goodbye to your motherboard.\n\nIn most cases the voltage will come preset for the region you live in. Voltage settings of 220/230 are for Europe.
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first format the disk and reinstall windows in your system
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yep, its that simple, but you must make sure your boot order is set to boot from cd before anything else (other than floppy) and then you need your product key when the install disk prompts you, then its fairly simple from that point on, make sure you create a partition and format it as whichever file system you like (usually NTFS for xp)  if you want 2 or more partitions, you should make them now and install windows on the C: disk
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did you try in any other PC, if its showing same error than usb drive must be having some hardware problem. try to install manually if you are using win98 bcoz it doesnt support plug and play.\n\ncheck the lock unlock key, ( some usb drive comes with lock unlock.)\n\nlet me know if you have any further question.
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you need to boot from windows xp cd and format the hdd(the new one).\nonce it is formated reboot.it's simple.\ndont install windows on it if you already have windows installed on another hdd.\ni did it and it worked like a charm
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blue screen of death is your technical term..reinstall windows or replace harddrive then install windows but in order to do this you MUST have the windows disk..so unless you have a generous friend i suggest a trip to the store...newegg.com has it fairly cheap..the windows program....best of luck from a friendly computer repair technician:)
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Your friend corrupted your Windows installation.  The best thing to do now is to format your hard drive and reinstall Windows from the original CD.  \n\nIf there is information you want to save, before you format your drive boot a standalone system, such as Knoppix, from CD.  Copy the files you need to save to a USB drive or burn them to a CD.
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go to MS dos mode (not MS dos prompt-go to the real thing). Now insert a cd having installation of windows, and install it, BUT ON D DRIVE. After this is done, give the following commands:-\nd:\nformat c:\n\nI think that should do the trick
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Make sure you have the primary/secondary drive jumpers set appropriatly. Also on Win98 you will have to load the correct drivers for these drives, then they should run ok.
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If the drive doesn't have a partition on it then you might need something better than scandisk, like seatools Desktop\n\nhttp://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/\n\nSeatools although it's written by seagate will check any harddrive for bad sectors, or other problems. Download and burn the iso.
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you must reinstall ur cd rom driver. if it says on my computer  that there is no cd, reinstall the cd rom driver, if its not working, reinstall windows.
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The most sensible answer is that you've pulled out one of the connectors for the hard drive. Try pushing them back in?
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ah newbies :-)\n\nif you dont have anything valuable on your Disk, boot up your computer in Dos prompt or Comamnd Prompt or Safe made then open Command Prompt.\n\nWhen your in there run the command \n"Chkdsk" this will scan your C drive for errors.\n\nif it still doesnt work try "fdisk". Its another utility to help "seperate" them. \n\nIf your not comfortable playing around with your computer, start it up regualry, right click C: (or w/e hard drive) Properies tools, Check for Errors or something along those lines it should be under Defragmat. \n\nCheck "fix automatically" \nIt will say "its in use check disc next time the system rebbots"  click yes\n\nnow reboot, you can expect you computer to be doing this for at least an Hour.\n\ngood luck
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Insert your Windows Operating System disk and reboot.  Check the BIOS settings if it won't reboot.   Once you reboot, begin the installation.  When it gets to the point of WHERE, select that partition for Deletion, then allow the installation program to format the hard drive.  \n\nIf you do not have the Windows installation disk, GET ONE. \n\nGood luck
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Your boot device have reading problem, You have try to change boot device from bios, it may be problem with your hd or cdrom have any cd in drive and boot device could be set to cd or same with floppy.\n\ntry to install your hard drive on a non-ata100 controller and remember to press f6 to install ata controllers from the floppy... then when you get to win2k, try making sure all the ata 100 drivers are installed and then shut down, switch to the ata/100 controller and boot up... should work fine. this topic has been brought up several times in the OS forum so you should stop by there http://www.sharkyforums.com/ubb/wink.gif
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Use FDISK first to create partitions. At least one primary partition. If you install Win2000 or higher this is part of the installation routine.\n\n-----------\n\nI had this problem once.\nhttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q228888\n\nThe solution is incredibly paradoxical.\n\nIf nothing helps go to the HDD manufacturer site and download the hardware diagnose tool.\n\nto get a picture of your case further details are required.
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It may be windows problem. Firstly repair ur operating system. If not any effect then format ur HDD nd reinstall windows.