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    Acer aspire 1640 help

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by slyfirth, Jan 31, 2007.

  1. slyfirth

    slyfirth Notebook Consultant

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    Hi first time.......

    i have a acer aspire 1640 i have had to get a new hard drive but when i go to put windows xp home on it will not let me do a clean install?????
    help....
    slyfirth
     
    slyfirth, Jan 31, 2007
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  2. NetBrakr

    NetBrakr Notebook Deity

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    Hello and welcome.

    It will help to tell us what is your proedure was.

    JC
     
    NetBrakr, Jan 31, 2007
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  3. slyfirth

    slyfirth Notebook Consultant

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    Hi....
    i took the old hard drive out put the ntfs preformated new hard drive in .
    went into bios changed the boot sequence.....
    put the xp oem disk in ...
    boot.
    light on the drive comes on then off nothing happens after that!
    cheers
     
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  4. NetBrakr

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    What new HD did you got?

    JC
     
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  5. slyfirth

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    it was a samsung 40gb ide....
    sly
     
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    Zero The Random Guy

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    Is the Windows XP being read at all? If it is, the drive should be making a noise. Also, are you sure the new hard disk is being detected by the computer. You should be able to check this in the BIOS.
     
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    the drive comes on and there is a noise...
    the hard drive works i have had it on my desktop and it is fine....
    how do you check in bios if it sees the drive?
    sly
     
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    Cheers Zero it was not seeing the hard drive !!!!!
    Thanks.....
    slyfirth
     
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    Zero The Random Guy

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    No problem. I hope you can get the disk to work now. :)
     
    Zero, Jan 31, 2007
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