250 gig hard drive

[Craig]

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How do I load an OS to a 250 gig hard drive, is there anything special I
need to do? I had a 36 gig SATA drive in its place working fine, pulled it
out to use a 250 SATA drive, and now I can't get it to load. I have done
all the driver loads during set up, it just comes up with an error every
time. Any help?

Craig

 

[Jerry]

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First thing to check - does your BIOS see the full 250Gb?

"Craig" <mapsliame2004-craig@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> How do I load an OS to a 250 gig hard drive, is there anything special I
> need to do? I had a 36 gig SATA drive in its place working fine, pulled
> it out to use a 250 SATA drive, and now I can't get it to load. I have
> done all the driver loads during set up, it just comes up with an error
> every time. Any help?
>
> Craig
>

 

[Jimbo]

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Craig wrote:
> How do I load an OS to a 250 gig hard drive, is there anything special I
> need to do? I had a 36 gig SATA drive in its place working fine, pulled it
> out to use a 250 SATA drive, and now I can't get it to load. I have done
> all the driver loads during set up, it just comes up with an error every
> time. Any help?
>
> Craig
>
>

Did you partition and format the new 250 GB drive?

jimbo

 

[Guest]

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What's the error?


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"Craig" <mapsliame2004-craig@yahoo.com> kirjoitti viestissä
news:%23Nfr1MAzEHA.2804@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> How do I load an OS to a 250 gig hard drive, is there anything special I
> need to do? I had a 36 gig SATA drive in its place working fine, pulled
it
> out to use a 250 SATA drive, and now I can't get it to load. I have done
> all the driver loads during set up, it just comes up with an error every
> time. Any help?
>
> Craig
>
>

 

[Craig]

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Thanks for the input, I finally figured it out. For some reason, I assume
just because of the larger drive than I was using before, I had to enable
the raid function in the bios and set up the single drive as a striping
configuration. Once I did that and nothing else, it worked perfect. before
that, the bios did recognize its entire 250 size, but it just wouldn't
work - I got an error saying "error loading OS". Anyway, problem solved.

Thanks everyone,

Craig



"Thomas Wendell" <tumppiw_NOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Craig" <mapsliame2004-craig@yahoo.com> kirjoitti viestissä
> news:%23Nfr1MAzEHA.2804@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> How do I load an OS to a 250 gig hard drive, is there anything special I
>> need to do? I had a 36 gig SATA drive in its place working fine, pulled
> it
>> out to use a 250 SATA drive, and now I can't get it to load. I have done
>> all the driver loads during set up, it just comes up with an error every
>> time. Any help?
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>
>
>