Thread: Hard drive not detected problem

I lately changed the hard drive in a Dell Laptop. The BIOS realizes the new drive but windows XP does not. Some thoughts as to why it does not and how I may right the situation?

Please some help will be greatly regarded.

The laptop won't realize the drive in Windows till it's formatted. Right-click on My Computer and choose Manage increase Storage in the left pane if it isn't so soon, and then choose Disk Management. Check if your drive comes on here. If so make a partition of your selecting and format it as NTFS or whatever you require. And then it should be made out in My Computer.

There is no operating system. I'm attempting to install XP on the fresh drive but later loading files it states windows cannot detect the hard drive. The BIOS/laptop finds the drive right, I cannot install the OS as Windows doesn't find drive.

There’s no windows .how can one boot to Windows with no windows? BIOS and nothing linked to windows? You have the thought right in Windows. Utilizing handle to format it so that Windows can see it.

Windows xp won't make out the drive because windows xp is not there. It’s on the former drive. Simply boot from your windows xp CD, you'll be capable to format the drive antecedent to installing the OS.

If the former hard drive was took out then the OS that was on the former hard drive was also removed. I didn't have some problems while my new hard drive was installed into my laptop since Dell had so soon reinstalled the OS on the new hard drive. Windows XP was realized instantly when the new hard drive was installed.