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Originally posted by Big Nath
Yeah fdisk, and partition a new drive, cause this will delete and reinstate any old boot sectors on the drive.
Also one thing to check with windows xp pro, if its a new computer, i had a prob with one of those seagate 10000rpm drives. You actually need to install the specific raid drivers for the drive for your installation cd. Have a read on your HDD install book and find out whether it runs via raid or not. If so copy the right files onto a floppy from your hdd install cd and hit f6 when windows setup is loading and load the raid drivers from your floppy.
If either of those 2 dont work, take the pc back and tell them its fucked.
Lemme know how you go
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thanks for the help... btw, windows isnt even totally installed on that computer so i cant get into dos (not really too good with dos stuff). i can only boot up with the xp pro cd and then if i hit "r" it takes me into repair mode. I type in fdisk and get, "the command is not recognized". I type in "help" and get a list of commands:
attrib, batch, bootcfg, cd, chdir, chkdsk, cls, copy, del, delete, dir, disable, diskpart, enable, exit, expand, fixboot, fixmbr, format, help, listsvc, logon, map, md, mkdir, more, net, rd, ren, rename, rmdir, set, systemroot, type.
i dont know shit about any of these... thanks in advance if anyone knows whats going on here.