Ralph,
When you say you disconnected it, did you disconnect the power or Un-Install Windows?
From what I can guess, either you did not select your HDD as the boot drive or you did not "save and exit" your bios (usually F10) the other option is your HDD has been corrupted or physically damaged. Try a new HDD if this is the case, (you can buy an inexpensive one then return it after you verify the laptop recognizes it or not) put your OS disk in CD/DVD ROM set Bios to boot from CD ROM, see if the OS will install to the new drive, if it does that will confirm corrupted/Damaged HDD.  Reset BIOS to boot to HDD after installed.  

John Green
PO Box 1301
Los Alamitos, CA 90720-1301


On 3/23/2010 1:47 PM, Ralph Hunter wrote:
> Hi
> I have Windows xp and had disconnected it. when I turned it back on it would only boot to the A drive and then loop around. I hit Cntrl F8 and selected the hard drive with the arrows and hit return but all it does is continue to loop around and not  bring up the system.  Am I suposed to hit another command to make it change to the hard drive?
> thanks.
> Ralph Hunter

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