Irritating harddrive

[dustinbumpy]

I have a Western Digital 120 GB recertified hard drive. My computers will detect it, but won't install Windows XP on it. I have the hard drive setup to slave or master (I"ve tried both to see if it might say something else) and when I first boot the PC it comes to a screen that says to put a boot diskette into drive A which is a floppy drive. I don't have a windows XP boot diskette and I couldn't get one. The windows XP boot diskette is 4.18 MB and floppy disc can only hold up to 1.14 MB I think. I have tried the CD-ROM as first boot priority and it still won't install windows on it. I still get the boot diskette message. I'm guessing if I install a zip drive and put the Windows XP boot on there it will work?

I don't have a clue what to do,

Thanks to all help.

 

[combatc87]

Do you have an older Windows that you could try installing? Then at least you could see if it's XP or your hd.

 

[dustinbumpy]

I don't have any other windows disc. I only have the Windows XP Professional disc.

 

[setishock]

shot in the dark here...

Take a win98 floppy and see if it will do an fdisk and a format. Have the drive as the master on ide channel one. You can download this if you can't get your hands on one.

 

[dustinbumpy]

OK, I'll try this.

 

[BuzzStPoint]

you didnt mention this..

Have you set up a partition and formatted the harddrive?