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

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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