I bought a second hand hard drive after the hard drive on my laptop failed. I have the origional win2000 disc I had with the last hard drive, but the 2nd hand drive I bought had xp pro already installed.
I only bought the hard drive at the weekend and I wanted to make sure it was working as soon as possible. So I removed the old drive and installed the new one. The bios recognises it, but the pc stalls on a flashing cursor and goes no further.
I have trawled the net looking for possible solutions but I haven't found any. Has anyone here any ideas? Could it be the BIOS? Or perhaps the low specs on the laptop (192m ram, 366mhz P2)? Or an I missing drivers?
I could reformat the disc and install win 2000 but I want to make sure I can return this drive if it isn't working.
Cheers for the help.
I only bought the hard drive at the weekend and I wanted to make sure it was working as soon as possible. So I removed the old drive and installed the new one. The bios recognises it, but the pc stalls on a flashing cursor and goes no further.
I have trawled the net looking for possible solutions but I haven't found any. Has anyone here any ideas? Could it be the BIOS? Or perhaps the low specs on the laptop (192m ram, 366mhz P2)? Or an I missing drivers?
I could reformat the disc and install win 2000 but I want to make sure I can return this drive if it isn't working.
Cheers for the help.