installing additional HD

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Irmo

Dear all,

Maybe this is not the right place for a hardware question,
but it is urgent, and i hope to find an answer here.

I'm trying to install a new harddisk in my PC.
First i had a master-40GB(partitions C & D), and a slave-
8GB(partition E) disk on a
smooth running win2000 system. I replaced the 8GB disk
with a new 40GB, a samsung 40G SV4002H.

Everytime when i boot up my PC, just after having entered
my password in windows, it automaticly reboots.

I tried all jumper settings
I start up my PC with win98 startup disk, and then
I used fdisk to remove partitions, and create a new
extended Dos partition.
And I formatted the disk.
When i look in the bios, the disk is present as slave, i
don't see problems there.
But it keeps rebooting everytime i log on windows.

Anyone who has some good advise for my...?
Thanx in advance!
Greetz
Irmo
 
Irmo I would suggest booting to the Recovery Console and then run the MAP
ARC command.
229716 Description of the Windows 2000 Recovery Console
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=229716
This will show you the drives connected and that were able to be mounted by
the file system.
Doing this command will allow you to make sure that all the drives are
actually showing up and are seen at the hardware level.
It's possible the system is looking for a drive during login that isn't
there and the login process is failing.

If all the drives show up as connected to the machine correctly, try booting
the computer in Safe Mode (just plain old safe mode, not the one with
networking for an option) and see if the machine loads the desktop
successfully.
If this works out for you, download the following tool and run it to gather
information about the machine and send it to us
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...c-4fe5-a579-30b0bd915706/MPSRPT_SETUPPerf.EXE
(This information was gathered from this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818742#6)


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Hi Irmo,
When you say the machine reboots after you log in, do you mean that it
completely reboots, or just cycles you back to the login window again?

If it's bringing you back to the login window over and over, try this
Knowledge Base article:

249321 Unable to Log on if the Boot Partition Drive Letter Has Changed
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=249321

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Windows NT/2000/2003 Setup Support

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