EDIT: It did - changing that setting back to "AHCI" resulted in a, "This operating system failed to start", message when I tried to boot XP. Changing the BIOS back to the "IDE" setting didn't fix ...

Hey guys-My brother's hard disk went out on his Dell so I'm installing an older 45 gig IBM of mine for him. I took his out, put mine in, and booted up. I was prompted to install a boot disk, so I ...