Anna
1.1. First of all, we'll assume that when you boot to your new HDD which
contains your freshly-installed XP operating system, the system boots &
functions without any problems whatsoever. That's right, isn't it?
Yes runs great
2.you should check out your old HDD (the one that's giving you a problem)
to determine whether it's defective or not.
The hard drive is not defective and passed all test.
3.The above won't solve your present problem, of course, so do this...
a. Disconnect the old HDD from the system and boot *only* to your new
bootable HDD. We'll assume that it boots without incident and functions just
fine.
b. Now re:connect the old HDD. Since you mention a Slave connection we're
assuming that it's a PATA (not a SATA) HDD. That's right, isn't it?
c. Make absolutely sure you've jumpered that HDD correctly and connected it
securely - both with respect to its power & data cable connections. Since
you've connected that old HDD as a Slave to your boot drive (which
presumably is connected as Primary Master, right?) make sure it's jumpered
as such. Double-check all connections, OK?
It is a PATA drive. The jumper on the master is right and there is no jumper
for the slave. all jumpers and connection are good and it start up.
4. Hopefully that secondary HDD will be recognized by the system after the
system boots. If not, access Disk Management again and see if the drive is
reflected there and whether you can now assign it a drive letter (assuming
no drive letter has been assigned).
the drive is there but can't assign it a letter the only thing I can do is
delete the partion and I can not see it in my computer.
5. If still no go...shut down the machine, disconnect that secondary HDD
from the system and connect it on your Secondary IDE channel (assuming your
PC contains a secondary IDE channel). Again make sure it's connected &
jumpered accordingly depending on whether you're connecting it as Master or
Slave on that secondary channel. Give it another try.
It is the same and I have put it on the master and as the slave on the
secondary channel. I have used the old data cable as well as new cable.
I have hook it up to two other computer and still get the same.
If I could get it to do a repaie intall I belive it word work fine. Just
windows keeps telling me to delete the partion even when I try to do the
repair install. As I can't see the drive info my backup I have does me no
good at this point.
Can someone tell me why windows can see the dive but can't repair it self.
"Anna" wrote:
>
> "Richard aka:finder" <Richardakafinder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:3040247B-AB68-4883-9792-2338F0FACF78@microsoft.com...
> >I install new MB and tryed to do a repair install. Windows XP would not let
> > me. I follow what was told to me and try to do a repair though repair
> > console
> > but that fall to work. So I got a new drive and did a clean install. I
> > have
> > it up and running and everything seem to be going great. Now I go and add
> > the
> > old drive on as a slave drive and my Bos see it and I go into XP windows
> > and
> > go to computer and it not there, I go to system information and it is
> > there
> > and can be seen in disk managrment but does not have a drive letter and
> > can
> > not gave it one.
> >
> > Can I get someone to help and old geezer out here. everything I need is on
> > this drive.
>
>
> Richard...
> 1. First of all, we'll assume that when you boot to your new HDD which
> contains your freshly-installed XP operating system, the system boots &
> functions without any problems whatsoever. That's right, isn't it?
>
> 2. Keep the following in mind, OK? By & by you should check out your old HDD
> (the one that's giving you a problem) to determine whether it's defective or
> not. You can do that with the HDD diagnostic utility that can (usually) be
> downloaded from the HDD manufacturer's website. That diagnostic utility can
> be created either as a floppy disk or CD, both of which will be bootable. So
> you would simply connect that old HDD to your system - disconnecting your
> new boot HDD - and check it out.
>
> 3. The above won't solve your present problem, of course, so do this...
> a. Disconnect the old HDD from the system and boot *only* to your new
> bootable HDD. We'll assume that it boots without incident and functions just
> fine.
> b. Now re:connect the old HDD. Since you mention a Slave connection we're
> assuming that it's a PATA (not a SATA) HDD. That's right, isn't it?
> c. Make absolutely sure you've jumpered that HDD correctly and connected it
> securely - both with respect to its power & data cable connections. Since
> you've connected that old HDD as a Slave to your boot drive (which
> presumably is connected as Primary Master, right?) make sure it's jumpered
> as such. Double-check all connections, OK?
>
> 4. Hopefully that secondary HDD will be recognized by the system after the
> system boots. If not, access Disk Management again and see if the drive is
> reflected there and whether you can now assign it a drive letter (assuming
> no drive letter has been assigned).
>
> 5. If still no go...shut down the machine, disconnect that secondary HDD
> from the system and connect it on your Secondary IDE channel (assuming your
> PC contains a secondary IDE channel). Again make sure it's connected &
> jumpered accordingly depending on whether you're connecting it as Master or
> Slave on that secondary channel. Give it another try.
>
> Assuming we're dealing with a non-defective HDD that has been properly
> partitioned/formatted, most of the problems we see in this area are due to
> misconnected/misconfigured devices. So check your connections carefully.
> It's possible, of course, there may be other causes such as a defective data
> cable or defective motherboard.
> Anna
>
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