NooNoo, can you explain "You can flash in Windows"?
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NooNoo, can you explain "You can flash in Windows"?
Go to the bios page and scroll right down to the bottom. On the left there is an online service, on the right live update (yah I know, I meant don't use the online service). Download the live update client and follow the instructions for updating the bios.
But I don't have Windows installed?
Oh, sorry... then you need a working floppy drive...
Edit... sata, remember, sata!! Sorry long day...
Or put the old drive back?
I know it may sound stupid, but I have problems with the old drive too. It had Windows/Ubuntu installed, I formatted the drive, but when I want to install Windows I get a Grub (22) error. Probably a boot loader remnant. And no floppy drive.
Know anyone with a floppy drive? Got an old ide drive?
I have a new IDE drive, but how can I connect that one? Can I use alternatively an USB-floppy drive?
If your system recognizes the usb floppy yes.
You can also put the old drive back in.
If your old drive just needs everything cleaned off to do a fresh install of windows then download this and make a cd and boot ot the cd and clean the drive off.
http://www.seagate.com/support/maxbl...stSetup.en.exe
Download it to the computer you are using to talk to us here and then double click it
and install it. Then it will allow you to make a bootable cd with the harddrive tools on it to remove that grub loader and prepare the harddrive and install windows xp or vista or whatever. After you are done making the cd you can remove maxblast from the computer you are on.
Once you have a basic windows on the old harddrive you can use the windows tools NooNoo pointed you too to flash the bios.
Once thats done you can install the maxblast to your old harddrive and it will allow you to copy the windows from the old 160 gig to the new 500 gigi
Thank you, will do that and keep you informed.
I think Ferrit was thinking the old hard drive was IDE... wasn't the old hard drive SATA and the IDE drive is spare?
The old disk was SATA, as the new one. I have a spare new IDE disk.
OK, let's do this the quick way.
You don't need anything fancy and you have a choice.
Set the ide drive as master and attach it to the primary ide
Now either download a bootable dos cd or just install windows xp - probably easiest to just run the xp install. Don't bother with drivers unless you need to get to the internet, just get to the desktop. Then with the msi client flash the bios. Remove the ide drive, hook up the new sata and see if it solved the problem.
I attached the IDE drive and am now installing Windows. So we have progress!
good stuff.