I need help!

[hammie]

I plan on buying and installing a new harddrive this weekend and I never done this before. Can someone walk me through this. I'm buying a 120 Gb harddrive and I'm installing Windows Xp onto it. I've done it before with someone else, but this time I'll be solo. So any advice will be appreciated.

[Abbadon]

Will you be adding the drive to an existing one or are you replacing it (ie taking out the old one). Is it an ide or a sata drive?

Also: some info on your system would be handy: number of drives present, number of ide/sata-channels,...

Putting in hard drives is relatively easy, shouldn't be much trouble, we'll get trough it ;)

[hammie]

I need to replace my hard drive. I don't remember how many IDE channels there is, I think theres 2 of them. I have a DVD-RW & CD-RW that are on the same IDE channel. I know installing them are relatively easy, but my fear is with installing the operating system. I'm installing XP from the back-up disks(6) I got from Hewlett Packard.

[Budfred]

It shouldn't be too difficult... Do you have another computer with web access you can use if you get stuck??

Also, when you post a thread, the title "I need help!" is one of the least likely to get you help because it doesn't give a clue about the issue. In this case something like: "Help to install new hard drive" would probably get you more help than you can handle....

[Whyzman]

If you have a floppy drive on this box I would download the harddrive diagnostics and have them ready to run right after you attach the drive...

[hammie]

Thanks everyone, I did it and it was easy. I installed the 120 gb harddrive with an IDE controller without a hitch. Then I put in the cd that came with the hard drive and rebooted the computer. After that, I installed the XP(8 CD's) operating system that I got from HP. Everything went like clock work.

[Whyzman]

Sweet! :cool: Congrats on your willingness to take on the task, and your success! ;)