Maxtor HDD Slave Install Problem

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I'm having trouble installing an old 40 GB maxtor drive as a slave, ive
gotten several errors during boot-up, missing NTLDR, Error loading OS, and
now the Disk Failure, Please Insert System Disk. the two drives are jumpered
correctly and it boots fine with just the original master drive in, also the
Maxtor works fine in other PCs, and when booting up using a Knoppex Linux
disk, weird thing is when i first connect the drive and boot into windows the
drive works just fine, then theres the new hardware installation Bubble in
the corner that tells me my hardware was installed correctly and to reboot,
when i reboot is when i get the error during boot up and cant get windows to
load unless i unplug the Maxtor. I've tried the FIXBOOT and FIX MBR tools
that comes with the WinXP disk to no avail and any help would be appreciated.
 
If your main drive is a WD you have to jumper that to I think Master with
Slave. If you have it jumpered to just a single drive you will get that
problem.
 
the Master is a WD, but i've already set it to master w/ slave, the WD is the
first drive to give me any trouble, been using the maxtor on and off as a
slave for about 5 years without any problems using Seagate and other Maxtor
masters
 
Ray said:
the Master is a WD, but i've already set it to master w/ slave, the WD is the
first drive to give me any trouble, been using the maxtor on and off as a
slave for about 5 years without any problems using Seagate and other Maxtor
masters
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The problem is a little bit more complex than that. Also,
as noted, Western Digital drives seem more discriminating
when combined with other makes of hard drives. The problem
may be due to the fact that the Maxtor had been previously
used as a Master drive with a primary partition. If this
partition on the Maxtor is still active, then de-activate
it so that only the primary partition on the master drive
(i.e., the WD) is the only bootable partition that the OS
sees.
 
Check your bios Boot Priority to see if you can select a specific Boot
Priority Drive. My mb is an Asus A8V Deluxe and I have that option.
 
Thanks for all the replies guys, tried all your suggestions, but still
nothing, in the end i just broke down and bought a USB external enclosure.
 
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