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adding 2nd harddrive

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stringcheeseincident

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i'm on an older system (p3 550mhz, 256mb ram, pci vid card, winxp) with a 10gb harddrive...i have an old 80gb from my old system with winxp on it, and programs and files and whatnot. i hooked up the 80gb onto this system as a slave, and the computer won't boot then it's plugged in. is the computer trying to run winxp off both the harddrives, or what? is it a problem with the old bios maybe (this is an old ~1999 gateway)? do i need to configure the computer to not try to load anything off the 80gb at boot?
 
Try just plugging the "new" 80 Gig drive in as master in place of the 10 Gig one.
If that works then its a jumper problem.
Check that the "old" 10 Gig drive does not have a different jumper position for a master/ slave setup as opposed to a plain master setup.

Luck........ :D
 
if you put the 80 gig in as master, it won't boot into xp... xp won't let it unless you boot from the xp cd and do a "repair installation" that is to prevent people from ghosting xp onto hard drives and putting it on multiple comptuers...

anyways.. is the 80 gig showing up in bios? set teh 10 gig to master, 80 gig to slave...

i have put drives with xp on them into computers as a slave drive several times, and they always seem to show up fine... so i don' tthink that is your problem


check in bios to make srue the boot drive is ide0 (ide1 would be the 80 gig)

but you probably just have your jumpers screwed up...

or maybe it is soemthign wierd like the psu being too small to handle the extra drive...
 
Check the jumpers... if its a western digital that was set to single (the jumper will be parked) it will not see anything else on the chain..

so, verify that the jumper settings are correct...

also, in your bios...check the ide config...

if you have, lets say, primary slave set to none it will not see it..

also, with the advent of new systems and their REAL auto detect features, people fail to remember the old days where you actually have to go into the bios and select "auto detect hard drive" it will go through the channels searching for the hard disks... apply those settings and save the bios settings you altered..

that should fix ya up..


Danny
 
i now have a 17gb harddrive with xp as the master (jumpers are correct) and the 80gb with xp also as the slave. the bios detects them both and everything is well, but when the 80gb is attached, the computer sits at the xp loading screen. i let it sit for around 7 minutes last time and it wouldn't load windows, so i just shut it down. it loads very fast with just the 17gb attached. any reason why this would happen? the 80gb also makes loud clicking sounds... is it dying? :( help is appreciated.
 
Try the 80 Gig drive as a master only drive.
Windozes XP wont like it and will complain/ try to load new driver etc and you may have to reactivate it after 30 days but it will load.
Doing that cuts down the number of variable that could be causeing the drive to stop working.
But you may have a click of death.

Luck........ :D
 
the only way he can make that 80 gig load XP is if he puts in an xp cd and does a "repair installation" on that drive..,... today, i replaced the motherboards in 2 comptuers at work.. and xp wouldn't boot... too much of the hardware had changed and it knew it and thought it was a different computer... where is the original computer that the 80 gig drive was in?

hook up just that 80 gig... and try either a repair instal of xp or install 2000 on it, then you can swap it into different computers all you want..
 
i'm not interested in trying to get xp working on the 80gb...now i'm sketched out and i just want to get my data off it to rma it. i have a new 80gb shipping to me i can install xp on to use, and i can copy my data on to that. how can i recover shit from the old drive...do i need some software or anything?

[edit:] i was reading on a few other boards, that when people had drives that were clicking and were dead, the bios wouldn't recognize them at all. the bios sees the drive fine and i'm hoping that means i can still get the data off. anyone?
 
if the bios can see the drive, then i see no reason as to why it won't show up in windows... once again, do you have the original comptuer the drive came out of? it shouldn't be necessary though.. if it shows up in bios then it should show up in windows... check the disk manager in the system manager and see if it shows up there..
 
i currently have a new motherboard and a new harddrive on the way from newegg that should be here thursday, i'll wait until i rebuild my system to mess around with it. thanks to everyone for their help, i'm sure i'll be back with more questions.
 
alright, well i got my system running (as seen in my sig, minus one of the two harddrives) and its working fine. however, when i try to attach the 2nd 80gb (the one i had trouble with before) the computer always hangs at the "detecting ide drives..." part of when the bios is loading. the first harddrive is set to master with slave present, the 2nd one is set to slave, and both are on the same ide channel. i switched the ide cable around a few times to make sure it wasn't in backwards, but whenever i try to boot with the 2nd drive attached, it fails. i need to get some data off this drive! i'll try to boot with the broken one as a master and run a repair installation, i'll be back with the results of that.

[edit:] with the broken drive running as master with no other drives, the bios detects it, but the system hangs at the raid utility screen after the bios loads. i can't boot to my cd-rom to run a repair installation. the drive clicks a lot when it starts, a sound i don't think i should hear. should i stop messing with it and try to get a professional to back up my data? its not 100% high classified important stuff, just 10 gigs of mp3s and a lot of my game files and what not. anyone have ideas?
 
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