mcintire21

Everything's working fine now. Thanks for the help nitro.

I don't think I can enter the bios screen. The only one that comes up is the one I described early with those options. Is there another way to get in that screen or boot from the cd. Thanks.

My friends computer gets an error on bootup that says, "we're sorry for the inconvenience, but windows did not start. Either a hardware or software change may have caused this. Then goes on to explain some options on what method to use to start up. Last known good config, normally, safe mode, etc. It does this everytime the computer is turned on and he has selected all the different options but all of them end up back at that same screen. He was going to reformat but he can't enter setup. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

After I boot from the cd and press enter to start setup I get this message. "Set up didnot find any hard disk drives installed on your computer. Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer and that any disk-related hardware configuration is correct. This may involve running a manufacturer-supplied diagnostic setup program." Any ideas would be great. Should I even install this it sounds like there are lots of problems with it. I'm running windows xp pro right now with AMD athlon 64 processor with 1.84 GHz and a GB of ram. Thanks.