need some help
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:58 pm
When I built my comp I told a buddy of mine he could have my old comp but he would have to get a copy of windows and a hardrive. So now he finally got a hard drive and I have a "copy" of windows that I have used on 3 other peoples reinstalls. For some reason this time it’s not working and I am stuck. The old comp is a dell 8200 p4 2.8 GHz. The hard drive my buddy bought is an E-IDE and I told him I have no idea what that is but I wanted him to get an IDE. I guess it’s a faster interface of some sort I don’t know I have SATA. Also the drive I pulled out had a jumper config for cable select so I figured maybe that would work with the new one but it didn’t. I also tried master and nothing both had the same result. When I put the disk in it loads and finds the drive with the right capacity then I can format. At that point when I point and say install windows there is loads some temp folders up and says windows is restarting then it does the same thing again. HELP!!!!!!