How do you set up a new hard drive in Windows XP?

first go to bios,and select boot from CD ROM/DVD inset xp boot disc into CD ROMand at statup press enter.....follow the rules

You must "clone" the old drive onto the new drive. Acronis True Image can do it very easily.

It depends on what kind of connection to internet you have. If you have a wireless router with DHCP just connect to the wireless network through the network card properties. If you have direct...

Boot from a bootable device OTHER THAN the hard drive you want to format. In other words, if you want to format the C drive, boot from a DVD drive, floppy, network or USB, THEN format the C drive.

There are two ways to partition a hard drive that I practice without using a third party software. The first way is to partition the drive in the set up environment using a windows xp bootable disk....