hard drive swapping problem

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Aaron B

I am having some hard drive issues. Let me explain.
I have two different physical hard drives labeled C, and D. I have been
having some problems so I decided to reformat and reinstall windows. It
(windows) is running from C, but since the D drive is smaller and would run
XP more effieciently, I formatted the D drive and installed a clean version
of XP pro on it. So now I want to make D drive the master drive and show as
C, and the other drive the slave. I figured this would be a simple jumper
setting adjustment, however now my system is not recognizing the old D drive
in bios at all. It does see the old C drive (which still has XP) only if I
connect it alone, vice versa does not work. (connecting only the old D
drive, windows wont even start)

any help is appreciated
 
Aaron B said:
I am having some hard drive issues. Let me explain.
I have two different physical hard drives labeled C, and D. I have been
having some problems so I decided to reformat and reinstall windows. It
(windows) is running from C, but since the D drive is smaller and would run
XP more effieciently, I formatted the D drive and installed a clean version
of XP pro on it. So now I want to make D drive the master drive and show as
C, and the other drive the slave. I figured this would be a simple jumper
setting adjustment, however now my system is not recognizing the old D drive
in bios at all. It does see the old C drive (which still has XP) only if I
connect it alone, vice versa does not work. (connecting only the old D
drive, windows wont even start)
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You can't install on D: and then make it C:... You must first make the drive
C: and THEN install Windows on C:.
 
Windows installs its start up/system files on the C drive, regardless
of where it is installed.
 
So regardless of where (D:\) I fdisked and installed Win to, the
starup/system files will automatically be put on C:\ ?

woah..... I guess I will just fdisk both drives a start over.


thanks
 
Pen said:
Windows installs its start up/system files on the C drive, regardless
of where it is installed.
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My Windows XP is installed on F: and it is the boot drive. My C: drive has
Win98SE which I put there to transfer files easily when I upgraded to XP.

Bearman
 
I am having some hard drive issues. Let me explain.
I have two different physical hard drives labeled C, and D. I have been
having some problems so I decided to reformat and reinstall windows. It
(windows) is running from C, but since the D drive is smaller and would run
XP more effieciently, I formatted the D drive and installed a clean version
of XP pro on it. So now I want to make D drive the master drive and show as
C, and the other drive the slave. I figured this would be a simple jumper
setting adjustment, however now my system is not recognizing the old D drive
in bios at all.
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Check the settings in your BIOS. Make sure all the IDE controllers
are set to 'auto' in the BIOS.

We really need to know more about your system to help you further. We
need...hard drive manufacturers, size of drives, how/where connected
on the controllers, which pins are jumpered on each drive.
It does see the old C drive (which still has XP) only if I
connect it alone, vice versa does not work. (connecting only the old D
drive, windows wont even start)
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Sounds like a jumper problem. If you have WD drives and they're on
the same IDE cable, the jumper on the primary boot drive needs to be
set to 'master'...NOT 'single drive'.

This may not solve your Windows problem, however. But you need to
solve yer BIOS problem first.

Let us know.


Have a nice week...

Trent©

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Windows installs its start up/system files on the C drive, regardless
of where it is installed.
Click to expand...

The statements you and Noozer made are correct...but they have nothing
to do with his problem.

He can't see the drive in the BIOS.


Have a nice week...

Trent©

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