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New Seagate hard drive not working with XP boot CD

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upsciLLion

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I'm trying to install Windows XP on a new Barracuda 7200.7 200 GB hard drive. Whenever I try to boot up the computer with the Windows XP CD, it doesn't work. When I put the old hard drive in, it works fine. I noticed some corrosion on top of some of the capacitors, so I'll be getting a new motherboard soon. Though would that cause the hard drive not to work with the system?

Thanks in advance.
 
It says, "Windows is inspecting your hardware configuration" or whatever, and then the screen goes black and it just sits there instead of immediately jumping to the blue install screen like normal.
 
That's.... definitely interesting. If you have the old hard drive in the system, can you boot off of it, and add the new hard drive at the same time, so you can see if windows is able to identify it?
 
It identifies it fine. I had it running as a slave drive so that I could backup files onto it. It just doesn't want me to install Windows on it I guess. 🙁
 
Is it PATA or SATA? If SATA, the XP Boot drive may not incorporate SATA drivers.

Does any boot CD let you see the new drive if Windows is not involved? I.e., a bootabole CD for Partition MAgic or NAV or anything - even the Optimum Boot Disk.
 
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