first build.. problem

"ICee" wrote in message
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Christo wrote:

[snip]
if i put a partition magic floppy disk into the drive i could format
it through there couldn't i?

or would i need to burn it to a CD and plop it in the cd rom?

I haven't used Partition magic, so I couldn't say. To be able to
boot from the CD drive and format the hard drive, you must have the
hard drive on IDE 1, set as master and the CD drive on IDE 2, set as
master. Go into BIOS and set CD drive as first boot device (you must
have the XP CD in the drive already), reboot, you should get a
message that says something like "hit space bar (or some key) to
boot from CD; otherwise, after 10 seconds, it will boot from the
hard drive. The CD should run and give you a menu.



im ripping the hdd out and cd drive out and doing it all again!!!

LOL Hey, first builds are almost always like that.



hey man wanna say thanks!

i took it all out and set up as you said with hard disk on IDE 1 and cd rom
on IDE 2 both set as master it worked great got XP on and im rolling


jut no pack plate for the peripheral connectors haha the one abit supplied
is a bugger to get onto the case i have... but i can live without that

cheers mate

Christo wrote:
"ICee" wrote in message
...
Christo wrote:

[snip]
if i put a partition magic floppy disk into the drive i could
format it through there couldn't i?

or would i need to burn it to a CD and plop it in the cd rom?

I haven't used Partition magic, so I couldn't say. To be able to
boot from the CD drive and format the hard drive, you must have the
hard drive on IDE 1, set as master and the CD drive on IDE 2, set
as master. Go into BIOS and set CD drive as first boot device (you
must have the XP CD in the drive already), reboot, you should get a
message that says something like "hit space bar (or some key) to
boot from CD; otherwise, after 10 seconds, it will boot from the
hard drive. The CD should run and give you a menu.



im ripping the hdd out and cd drive out and doing it all again!!!

LOL Hey, first builds are almost always like that.



hey man wanna say thanks!

i took it all out and set up as you said with hard disk on IDE 1 and
cd rom on IDE 2 both set as master it worked great got XP on and im
rolling


jut no pack plate for the peripheral connectors haha the one abit
supplied is a bugger to get onto the case i have... but i can live
without that

cheers mate

Excellent! Glad to hear you got it working. The good thing about
problems like that is you learn a whole lot and never forget.