New Hard Drive suggestions

[Just A Girl]

pssssst....

for future referance.

You could have used your windows cd to boot up in to Recovery console, (so that means Bios needs to be set to 1st boot device = cd)
And formated your windows drive from there.
(not recomended)

some hard drives need there own 3rd party drivers to be insalled during xp instaltion.
xp would prompt you.

You could also use the xp cd to boot up,
(again bios needs to be set to 1st boot device = cd) then try to Install Windows xp.
You could alocate it to the new drive and install it there.
AFTER the new drive had windows installed.
You could select the new windows from the boot comands.
Then formated your origional hard disk from within windows.
(Provided you selected the correct windows install to boot up from)

The second way is the best way. safest way, and most logical way.
Becous pre sp2, XP wasnt that great at detecting HUGE hard disks.
So you realy need xp installed already to be able to install xp properly on a large drive, "I.e 200-300 Gb" or you may find out your 300gb hard disk. is detected as 100gb or something even worse.

BTW..
You select which is your 1st boot device in bios.

CD
should be your 1st device. so you can easily boot from xp cd if needed.

then hdd0, hdd1, scsi excetera As your second boot device.
hdd0 should be on ide 1. master. (should never change)
hdd1 could be on ide 1 as a slave.
or it could be on ide 2 as a master.
All depends on how you set it up.

Hope that helps next time.