well i dont have any other ways of checking it, first make sure ur not making any mistake at the First boot part, then ill advise u to open up ur case , and see if ur HDD is using SATA or IDE, if SATA it should be a smll CAbel, if IDE it should be a wide cabel here are few pictures. ur hDD should look like this ( i asum u have no knologe at all) IDE cabels are like this and here is a HDD with IDE http://joday.free.fr/images/hw/memoire-hd-ide-chipset.jpg SATA are like this [/b][/quote] ok i will check it!!
