New Hard drive from Santa

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Joe

How do I make Windows XP recognize my new hard drive? I
transferred the files, but Windows XP hangs at the Windows
XP Logo screen. Thanks in advance.

Joe
 
Joe, do you mean that XP does not recognize the drive as a slave or
secondary Master? If you want the new drive to be
your boot or system drive then you have to either image your old drive
and transfer to the new or reinstall WinXP on the
new drive and from there format and clean the old one after moving all
the important files.
Ghost by Norton and Drive Image from Powerquest will image your old
drive.
 
I use to have a problem similar to this. I would get a
BSOD just after the WindowsXP logo appeared. Found out
both the Jumper settings and the BIOS weren't configured
correctly [and this was after I got a specialist computer
tech shop to install them!]
If you've still got the files on the original hard drive,
you may need to change the jumpers on them and/or change
the BIOS settings for the hard drive. I find that I am
able to 'not install' the hard drive 'according to the
BIOS' set up, but boot-up works fine and so does both of
my hard drives when windows starts.
Usually when Windows starts, it'll recognise the hard
drive automatically. If the system hangs though before
Windows even starts, then chances are it is a
hardware/software conflict [in that order].
 
Similar problem...

I have imaged the original 30gig onto the 120gig with
Norton Ghost and with DriveCopy7.

In both cases, the 120gig will boot but freezes at a
Windows Logo screen that is simlar in appearance to the
select user screen.

When I've run the recovery control, it shows a "D" prompt
instead of a "C" prompt. How can the "D" be hard-coded on
that drive when it's the master on the IDE bus?

Any ideas?
 
Rich Coyle said:
Similar problem...

I have imaged the original 30gig onto the 120gig with
Norton Ghost and with DriveCopy7.

In both cases, the 120gig will boot but freezes at a
Windows Logo screen that is simlar in appearance to the
select user screen.

When I've run the recovery control, it shows a "D" prompt
instead of a "C" prompt. How can the "D" be hard-coded on
that drive when it's the master on the IDE bus?

Any ideas?
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The drive letter doesn't have much to do with where the drive is on the bus.
If you didn't follow the drive copy instructions to the letter, you end up
with the old drive keeping the "c" designation, so the new drive has no
choice but to take "d"
 
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