formatting on used drive with new build

[ammo]

I made the mistake of not formatting my drive before I re-built my computer with a new mobo. Now It keeps trying to load windows and can't. I put in my Windows XP CD in the rom drive to format the hard drive but the disk won't boot(

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Last edited by ammo; 06-16-2006 at 08:29 PM.

[ammo]

new problem now. I hooked my hard drive to an old pc and formatted it. I hooked the hard drive back to my computer and now if the hard drive is priority 2 or 3 is says can't find NTloader and if I disable the hard drive it says select proper boot device or insert boot disk. My CD-Rom is always set to 1st priority boot. My Windows XP cd was in there and it still won't boot to it. Anybody know what's wrong?

[glc]

You have a bad CD drive, bad CD, bad IDE cable on the CD drive, incorrect jumpering, or a bad IDE channel on the motherboard - or something set incorrectly in the bios.

[ammo]

Thanks for the reply glc. I figured it was one of those. I am using a new cable so I'll swap that back to the old one first. It shouldn't be the drive because the drive worked before I put the new ASUS mobo in. I just hope it's not the controller so I don't have to go through the whole RMA process. That's a bummer and it would be my first bad component from newegg. I still love you newegg even if the mobo is bad!

[ammo]

Also it's not the disk because I have 2 Windows XP cds and neither worked.

[glc]

You cannot rule out the drive without trying a different drive. Verify proper jumpering for the type cable.

[ammo]

It was the cable