More Problems!!!!

[Flacky]

A month ago my hard drive crashed and I lost xp. I finally got my old hard
drive working but it was going really slow and I got a message telling me to
back old files and replace imediately as a faliure is imenent. I have bought
a new 250gb hard drive but couldn't install my version of windows I got with
my pc as it was a recovery disk not a disk that would install windows from
fresh. Now my new problem is I installed a friends version of windows last
night and all seemed to be working fine. But I checked my hard drive (right
click then properties) and it says its only 127gb not 250gb and when i try to
play any music of a video the sound doesn't work and I get a message telling
me I don't have a sound card which I do. What is going on. One thing I forgot
to mention aslo is I installed my friends xp which was dell so when windows
was up and running I then thought I'd install my windows disk over it to try
and get it back to my factory settings. When my disk loaded up I restarted
windows and it wouldn't boot up. So I had to boot up by using my friends xp
disk again and repairing windows but when it did boot up I had all my old
factory settings. I'm lost. Please help

 

[RoguePossum]

Hey Flacky,
Just a Hard drive change shouldn't affect your using the recovery
disc.
It sounds to me like your device drivers aren't installed because you
didnt use YOUR recovery disc. Just a normall xp disc usually does not
contain enough or the correct drivers for a lot of new hardware.
Did you try using your own recovery discs?
If so and it didnt kick in you may not have the bios set to boot from
cd first. Also some discs require that you hold down a force key such
as F10 or F6 during boot.
My advice would be to start again (yes I know it's a pain, But much
cleaner) using YOUR recovery disc/s. Failing This just Identify your
Hardware When you first get into windows using a tool such as everest
home.
The most important and first driver I install on my customers machines
are the chipset drivers ( VIA, Nvidia, SiS are the more common). Once
again use Everest or just look at the Motherboard inside your case.
(SECOND BIGGEST CHIP SIZE TO THE CPU)
As for the Hard drive size, How old is your Motherboard?
You could try Updating the bios.
Or check partition information, using Disk manager
Hope this helps as I dont get into the forums much.
GOOD LUCK sorry for the long Post
Quick Hints = Hold down windows key (FLAG) and press R then type
"devmgmt.msc" without the quotes for Device Manager
Hold down windows key (FLAG) and press R then type diskmgmt.msc for
Disk Management utility.


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