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Hi everyone. I'd appreciate some assistance. I have an old Evesham desktop PC on which the original hard drive failed. My Sister-in-Law needs a new pc because hers is broken, so I brought a new IDE hdd (identical to old one but a different make) for my old computer to fix it up for her. I installed the disk OK inside the tower and set jumper to master because it's the only hard drive. The BIOS recognises and lists the hard drive and the floppy, CD and DVD drives. However, when Windows XP attempts to install I get an error message "windows can not detect any hard disks on this computer." I've googled but none of the solutions for similar problems appears to work. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. I'm a bit of a novice really when it comes to this sort of thing. Many thanks, Peter