I got a new hard drive delivered by UPS today. Car Accessories.com ordered it for me. http://www.caraccessories.com It is a 250 GB Western Digital 7200 RPM EIDE hard drive. I copied my Windows XP operating system onto this new drive using Drive Copy 4.0. Unfortuntately my system crashed twice after installing this new drive. I examined the Event Viewer error logs and Windows Help suggested replacing the IDE cable. I replaced the IDE cable with the new cable that came with the drive and now my system will not boot up at all. I tried reattaching the IDE cables various times but the system remains stone cold dead.
Car Accessories is ordering a bare bones system which they are going to ship to me. I’m also looking for a cheap back up system on eBay. I’m currently using my old computer which is only a 500 MHz system with 383 MB of RAM.
My hard drive is probably still good. I think the IDE controller is bad on the motherboard.
