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> >"Cora" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> >> installing western digital hard drive..keep getting
> >> command or filename not recognixed and/or x prompt
> >
> >Tell a complete story.
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> Sorry, I have installed my new western digital 160GB hard
> drive. I insert the disk that came with it and start the
> PC to install the drivers(?)
Don't use anything that came with the HD.
> and DOS reads...
> command or file not recognized
> X:/>_
You got lucky.
> I do not know what this means. I assumed it would be as
> simple as the instructions said it would be. (never
> assume, huh?)
> I was running Windows XP on an Emachines T2260 w/seagate
> 60GB hard drive and I could not get passed the Welcome
> screen, I learned that my hard drive was corrupt when
> windows quit loading all together. It just froze at the
> splash screen. I bought a new hard drive last night and
> am trying to install it today. I have w/me a Win XP OEM
> disk, emachines system recovery CD.
Physically install the new HD as primary master. Leave the old HD out for
now. Boot from the XP CD and install XP.
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