Ive got my old PC up and running sort of. Its a PIII 500mhz blaster PC. For some stupid reason it wont even post when Ive got the cd drive hooked into the second IDE channel.
I want to wipe the HDD (6gb lol) but I wont be able to re-install windows, and theres no recovery function. I have a windows disc and the product key written down....but I cant get the computer to boot with the cdrom hooked up.
So what I want to maybe do if I can, is put the drive in my current PC, wipe it, and install windows and a couple other little programs....then send it back to the PIII. My current pc is ultra ATA tho, and the IDE channel is being used by my dvdrom.
could I unhook the dvd rom and hook up the HDD, detect it in the BIOS and then load up windows and clear it out?
Also it uses fat32 so would it be worthwhile to reformat if I can?
I like the idea of putting it into my current pc temporarily because Im sure it would install windows alot faster...2GHz vs 500Mhz
so any help appreciated
I want to wipe the HDD (6gb lol) but I wont be able to re-install windows, and theres no recovery function. I have a windows disc and the product key written down....but I cant get the computer to boot with the cdrom hooked up.
So what I want to maybe do if I can, is put the drive in my current PC, wipe it, and install windows and a couple other little programs....then send it back to the PIII. My current pc is ultra ATA tho, and the IDE channel is being used by my dvdrom.
could I unhook the dvd rom and hook up the HDD, detect it in the BIOS and then load up windows and clear it out?
Also it uses fat32 so would it be worthwhile to reformat if I can?
I like the idea of putting it into my current pc temporarily because Im sure it would install windows alot faster...2GHz vs 500Mhz
so any help appreciated