New Hdd = No Power On?

[Onyks]

thanks to kewlboxer2 i got my new hard drive. wd1200 western digital caviar120g

 

anyways... i put it in and tried to turn the computer back on and nothing... it will not start up at all. the psu is getting power because i plugged it into the wall and it makes my desk lamp (same outlet) jolt. got no clue whats goin on.

i didnt have the computer apart long enough to have screwed somethin up. the slave/master jumpers could possibly be wrong but i seriously doubt that would keep it from turning on.

 

ok so the computer will not turn on so unless i fix this i cant recheck it until tommorow at school .

any info... even a random guess would be nice.

thx occ

 

EDIT: nvm i did screw up... power switch wires fell out somehow fixed it

Edited May 12, 2005 by Onyks

[kewlboxer2]

im glad u found out what was wrong, and all i know is that i was running linux on that before i formated it and sent it to u.

[Onyks]

lol thats what i was going to do with it too at least half of it

 

does linux only run on a FAT32 partition? and which distros do/dont?

[asus]

well.. just divide the space up like idk.. 1/2 of the hard drive NTFS for your windows partition.. then when you go to install linux.. just choose the free space and create an EXT3 partition..

 

for an easy Distro that is very very stabe and good.. you may want tot check out fedora core 3 ... so www.fedora.org or something will lead you to it ..

[Onyks]

well crap... so im assuming changing everything on the new drive to ntfs already is not helpful... so do i have to reformat? and leave the space out of the ntfs partition?

 

its 120gig and i want to leave at least 40 for fat32(fc3) so do i make the ntfs partition 80 gig? or can i use some of the already ntfs space and change it to fat32?