Want to install Windows XP on my secondary hard drive...

[DJLanglois]

My brother's hard drive got corrupted.

I was able to hook the drive up to my computer as a secondary drive, get all of the important information off, and reformat the drive. Now, I would like to install his OS (Windows XP) on the hard drive.

Unfortunately, I cannot find an easy way to do this. The XP cd just looks at my primary drive, determines that I've already got a "newer" version of Windows installed (updates, etc.), and doesn't let me go any further. It doesn't give me an option to do an install to my secondary, empty hard drive.

What can/should I do?

 

[MrChad]

You have to install XP on your primary drive. Remove all hard drives except for the one you wish to install Windows on, then setup the new XP HD as your primary drive and boot from the XP CD. You should be able to proceed from there.