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I have a Toshiba Tecra laptop that had a hard drive that crashed. I bought a new one (Western Digital 320 GB EIDE Internal Hard Drive) and I am 99% sure that I installed it correctly. I am trying to load Windows XP Home Edition on the new hard drive. I load the installation CD and change the boot priority to CD. The program starts by saying I need to press any key to boot from CD. I do this and then it says that Setup is inspecting my computers hardware configuration" and then nothing else happens. Any ideas?
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Posted 07 July 2009 - 05:17 PM
Define "nothehing happens" .
When it says "inspecting hardware" that can sometimes take a few.
When it says "inspecting hardware" that can sometimes take a few.
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Posted 07 July 2009 - 05:20 PM
The screen is black and I hear no fan or movement in the computer. I have let it sit for over a half hour and there are no responses.
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Posted 07 July 2009 - 06:03 PM
Did you go into the Bios and set the CD as the first to boot? Also not sure if this can happen inside a laptop but if it is an IDE drive the cable may be flipped 180.
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Posted 07 July 2009 - 06:13 PM
Yes, I did change the boot priority to CD. When it starts to boot I hear the CD running, but then it blacks out when it is checking the hardware configuration.
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