As I mentioned on my other topic on the avast Forum, I did TRY to upgrade my HP Pavilion 6730 from its current 10 Gig Seagate Model ST310212A Hard Drive ... to the 400 Gig Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 Hard Drive from my non-working Dell computer.
Last year the brother of an Online friend had told me that my HP Pavilion could only be upgraded to a 40 Gig Hard Drive. But, earlier this week, someone at Geeks to Go told me that my HP Pavilion COULD be upgraded to that 400 Gig Hard Drive with no problems. So, I went for it.
I installed the 400 Gig Hard Drive in my HP Pavilion.
I inserted my Windows XP Install CD to have it do its thing.
In various attempts ...
I tried both formatting with the QUICK NTFS method ... and also with the FULL NTFS method.
I tried having the HD Jumper Setting at Cable Select ... and also at Master On.
The 400 Gig Hard Drive WAS recognized and WAS formatted.
The Files WERE loaded / copied.
Yet, no matter what I tried, my computer would NOT Boot Up.
It would just sit there with a Blinking Cursor.
Is there any preparation that I possibly had to do to that 400 Gig Hard Drive like maybe with some App / Utility from a Floppy BEFORE running my Windows XP Install CD?
Is there any Setting that I am supposed to change in the BIOS?
Anything I forgot to do? Any insight / suggestions on why my computer didn't Boot Up after presumably installing Windows XP on it?