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A bit of a long one sorry.
I used the Hard drive out of an old XP desktop in a CCTV system
I used it for a bit and then delted the recording and now decided to put it back in the PC and load windows 7 or XP on the pc with this Hard drive.
every time i have tried to get the pc to started it says something about the bois not being installed and sometimes i get something about "arry"
i have managed to change the boot order to the DVD and it then restarted on its own, a message that has kept popping up is ......... no bios installed
It eventualy loaded the windows files (black screen and white line at the bottom) but them the pc stickes on the windows emblem and starting windows
what am i doing wrong?
Thanks
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  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    Go into the BIOS at start up first and set the hard drive .
  • were
    were Posts: 632 Forumite
    Stab in the dark "Arry" is drive array - maybe?

    "I used the Hard drive out of an old XP desktop in a CCTV system
    I used it for a bit and then delted the recording and now decided to put it back in the PC and load windows 7 or XP on the pc with this Hard drive."
    CCTV often use a free os like linux. I would have wiped the whole disk and repartitioned, rather than just delete the file
  • GT60
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    Here is the latest Message
    I don't understand as the HD is empty
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  • GT60
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    the last four are from my start up before windows loads
    is there a better site than tinypic to upload the photos
    thanks
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  • were
    were Posts: 632 Forumite
    edited 7 June 2017 at 5:28PM
    empty is not always empty. empty could be unrecognised format, corruption, or other weirdness.

    The easy way is to wipe the disk, just to be sure. In your case I would use this
    http://www.trishtech.com/2013/03/create-a-bootable-dban-usb-pen-drive/

    Myself would try this, https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

    Unsure why it is not recognised in bios without it being infront of me, and without knowing the setup. IDE drives master/slave/cs and cable correct?
  • GT60
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    This is the original issue with this pc Before we took out the HD for the CCTV system
    I will photograph everything and post as my son took out the HD and he cant remember how it went
    Thank you very very much
    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5159201
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  • GT60
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    The photos are too big
    I have tried to make them smaller by using the squares on the edges
    I am using the Imgur it is so easy and quick but cant see an option to ajust the image size
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