Hard Drive Installation and Window Installer

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I installed another additional hard drive, 120g Western
Dig to complement the original 40g Western Dig.and made
the 120g the Master.
Now whenever I click on something the Window Installer
pops up. Does this mean the WI program is on the Slave
drive and needs to put on the Master to keep it from
having to install everytime I click on something?
How can I remedy this problem?
 
Why in the world would you put a "slave" drive in a computer and then make
it master?? The system now thinks that there is another - different first
drive and is trying to change its pointers in the registry to reflect
that...

You have the makings of a genuine mess! If it was to be a slave (second)
drive why not just jumper it as slave? There doesn't seem to be any
pressing or valid reason to make it the Primary Master.

You might be better served switching the jumpers on your old drive back to
master after running a system restore back to the time before you added the
new drive. (Run sys restore, when it reboots change jumpers, restart
computer) This might allow the system to use the older registry without
jumping through hoops to change pointers!

Anyway good luck...
Len
 
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