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Mikez, I'll give it a try this afternoon and see what happens. jimmy

Hi everyone, Can a person load an OS (win. XP or 2K) on a new Hdd on one machine and then put that HDD in another ( different) machine and get that machine to boot and operate ? If so what's to proper way to do it ? Thank's in advance for any reply's. jimmy

Thank you, that did it. jimmyd

Guess Im old and stupid, but sure would like to see the current board time some where. Is that possible ???? Thank's for reading this, jimmyd

m & Dave, Well I GOT IT , went to WD support and downloaded a couple of utility's. Wrote 0's to the drive and ran chk./fix error's, reformatted it and hooked it up as Master/Single. XP-PRO installed and in running good. I shutdown and started up several time's no problem's. Man , I'm tickled to death. I really appreciate the input's from you guy's. Thank's a million. jimmy

HI, mikex My CD is a MS (holographed) Win. XP-PRO install CD. I'm trying to install on a freshly formatted (NTFS) WD, 40GB HDD. I'm positive the problem is the HDD, ( I can use the CD disk on another of my machines and set-up and install begin's and continues untill I abort it). I've been on Google and tried several of the guide's I found there, but no luck. I haven't been able to get back into the "Recovery Console", when I do, then I might have chance of Repairing the HDD. By the way, I've also tried to install from a 2nd. XP-PRO ( MS ) CD and a MS Win. 2K PRO CD, niether would inst

I installed it as "slave" on an XP-PRO machine and reformated it and ran check disk. Put it back in by it's self and attempt to install XP-PRO and I get the same darn results. I guess I may be able to use it for storage ? Hate to waste 40GB drive. jimmyd P.S I did do Scandisk and DeFrag. Before I put it back in by it's self.

Saw your post late last night and tryed those step's. It's goes immediately to NTLDR is missing (with bilnking cursor) . At this point There are no input function's except CTL+ALT+Delete, which reboot's right back to the same screen. In my initial post the "time it just sat there was 30-40 min. Thank you for the reply, jimmyd

Western Digital 40GB HDD, Wanted to reformat to see if I could use it. Put it in Desktop, as Master and Booted it with my XP-PRO OS disk. It copied some files and hung-up on "Searching Sys. Disk". I shut down ( pwr. swth) and re-booted I get a screen full of data and at the bottom, "NTLDR Not Found" , press Ctrl+Alt+DEL to re-boot. When I do, this sequence just repeat over & over ??????????????????????????. Any ideas ? jimmyd

Crow I don't have "Client For Microsoft" set-up, I'm checking it now. jimmy P.S. Selected it but all it does is tell me to insert disk for Driver's ???? I really don't know what I'm doing ,I guess. I'm about ready to surrender and suffer with dial-up. LOL !!!

Crow, tryed those steps no luck. Think I might need Ethernet adapter on the ThinkPad. Don't know what else to try. As I stated, client #1 & #2 are set up the same except for IP addy and Name, #1 works fine . Thank's for the effort. jimmyD

Mikes, thank's for your reply. jimmyD

Hello, I'm new to the Board and would appreciate some Network help. My setup is as follows; Host= Desktop, Win. XP PROsp2, connected to Direcway Satelite Dish. Also to a 4port Ethernet Hub. Client #1= Desktop, win XP. With Ethernet cable to the above Hub. This unit goes on line and the is networked fine, ( no problems ). Client #2= IBM ThinkPad T20, Win 2k Pro. Intel® PRO/100+MiniPCI Ethernet card. Ethernet cable to 4 port Hub. From Client #2, the Ping is sucessful to Client #1 and the Ping of it's own IP add is sucessful. The Ping attempt to the Host fail's. I'm using Proxy,