I have 2 hard drives installed in my computer, one for the os which is windows xp, and the other was for music pictures and all of my extra junk. about a week ago my computer stopped reading the second drive and I cannot get into the files that are on there. It doesnt feel like its spinning up and is not showing up on the hard drive manager... Please help

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But you will loose all of your files and folders when you format the hard dive to install win xp
you cannot run 2 operating systems on the one hard drive unless the hard drive is partitioned ( in effect having 2 hard drives on the one disc) as it causes massive conflicts in operation
Why any one would install an out dated , unsupported operating system like win xp in place of win 7 beats me
of course if you insist in doing it you could always install and extra hard drive in the computer and run it as an extra hard drive and install the win xp on it and still retain all of your files and folders

iam sure that if your windows wont load and you can not get it to start you may have to put your hdd to another computer using a usb drive,or add it to another computer as a slave,or when putting new xp on see if it will let you keep your files.

You can purchase, then install extra RAM or memory either online or at Staples or any store that sells computers and parts. Also you can add another hard drive which you can also install yourself if your pc has room for an extra drive. See your pc manual, and it will tell you if you can add an extra drive. Read up on how to install, its really not hard at all to do yourself. If you have an older OS like microsoft vista or xp, you can upgrade to windows 7 or 8 by purchasing one at any computer store, even Walmart. Hope this helps! If you don't feel you can do yourself, then purchase a good computer with at least 3 or 4 gigs of RAM and at least 1 TB hard drive space, as well as a high-performance video card, and a good anti-virus program like Norton or Kaspersky.

The problem is that XPinstallation CD does not have a SATA driver, unless you have a SATA drive on adisk etc. and can install the driver when XP asks for a hard drive driver then,XP cannot detect the hard disk and therefore won't install XP. The FIX. Go into the BIOS anddisable the SATA drive (enable IDE emulation), this will make XP think it is aIDE/PATA hard disk. Then you can install XP normally. When Windows hasbeen installed then install all the device drivers (including the SATA driver),then shut down and boot up and got into the BIOS and enable the SATA drive.

Put OS disk in shut off computer
restart computer
push ENTER to boot from cd- this is not happening.
It is possible that your OS disk isn't good

You have to partition your drive in order to install another operating system, or install another drive

hi! there,set up exe. that was when your setting up win 98 you have to install that came from floppy disk before you can install win 98.there is an os win 98 in your system you have to delete that previous os before installing another win xp.restart ur computer. press F2 to open your bios set-up . then select bios set-up priority your cd-room drive second,your hard drive. last, quit and save set-up. and then your computer will restart. insert your cd windows xp then reinstall your window xp. delete the previous os then follow the set up on your window xp until you install your new window xp.

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Connect the hard drive to your computer using a USB cord.

Check what the "File System" type is by going to Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Manager. Select the external drive and read the "File System" type. The file system type must be "FAT32" in order for the Playstation to recognize it.

If the file system type is "NTFS", right click and select "Delete Partition" or "Delete Volume" for Vista.

then recreate the partition but do NOT format it. Make sure you assign a drive letter (for this Tutorial, we'll use h:)

If you are running Windows, format the drive by going to the command prompt (Vista, right click on command prompt in start menu and click "run as administrator")and type in "format h: /FS:FAT32" (without the quotes). You may need to substitute your drive letter. (note this might not work on XP for a large hard drive - you may have to use a third-party formatting utility like SwissKnife; however, it does work under Vista - just be sure to use the format command from the DOS prompt, not from Windows Explorer)

If you are using Mac OS X, open /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app, pick the drive, and click on the 'Erase' tab. Pick 'MS-DOS (FAT)' for the file system type, and click on the 'Erase' button. This will reformat the drive in FAT-32.

Open "My Computer" and double-click on your empty external hard drive.

Create a folder system identical to that on the Playstation 3 by creating folders labelled "Picture" (not Photo), "Music", "Video" and "Game".

Load all the music you want into your music folder, all the video you want into your video folder, and all the photos you want into your picture folder. Your game folder should still be empty.

Disconnect the hard drive by clicking the green arrow in the icon list and the bottom right hand corner of the screen and select "Safely remove..."

Once your computer tells you "XXX drive can now be safely removed", unplug the hard drive from your computer.

Connect the hard drive to your Playstation 3 and use the extra space to save information and access all your extra content saved on your external hard drive