I have a 1.1GHz PC w/256Meg RAM, Phoenix Award BIOS. Though working, I need a bigger HD. I bought a 160GB EIDE at Best Buy yesterday. I have Windows 2000 Pro and a XP Home upgrade. I installed the new HD as the only drive. I boot up with the XP disk ... at a point, it askes me to put in my earlier version Windows. I take out the XP disk and put in the Win2K disk. Enter. It takes me to a screen that says to install XP, press Enter. The Win 2K disk was still in. I swapped the disks. I don't remember what happened (been through too much before I found this apparent great site. I decided to just start over and install Win 2K and when it was up and running, I'd do the XP upgrade thing. I got to the disk being formatted. It was around 30% done when I got the BSOD. Kmode ... something. I tried about 4 times to format this thing. Each time it did the same thing only at different percents ... once, 70 something percent.
I decided the drive was bad and took it back today. They had no more and gave me a 320GB EIDE for no extra cost. I thought that was very cool. I came home, installed the drive, put in Win2K disk, booted, followed on screen info ........ got to format. Cool. For about 55%. Then, same thing.
The old drive, that still works but is old (4-5 years? Came with puter) is a 80GB.
I'm wondering, since I looked up some stuff online, if there is an issue with compatibility? I discovered online that ATA-1 came out in late 1994 and I think ATA-2, also known as EIDE, came out in .... I think 1997. Since this computer was new around 2001 or 2, I am assuming the chip on the motherboard that says ATA really is ATA-2?
Help?
Thanks, Larry