switching master/slave hard drive problem - please help

[Matches]

Hi there,

I recently purchased a second hard drive for my PC for
video editing purposes. My original HDD is a 7200rpm
Seagate 40gig running XP Pro and the new one is the same
but an 80gig drive.

I originally had the 80gig drive set-up as a slave for
extra storage but decided to install a second copy of
Windows XP Pro on that drive and slowly set it up with
the intention to eventually ditch the original drive and
sell it.

The second drive works fine as a slave and it runs its
own operating system with no problems. However, if I try
to take out my original hard drive and have just my new
one as a master (now set-up as the master, of course,
with jumper settings all correct), I get a dos-style
error message saying 'Error loading OS' and no Windows
for me.

Can anybody help me with this problem? Please help.

Thanks in advance,

Matt

 

[Thomas Wendell]

Both drives were on your system while installing XP to the slave? If so, the
installation wrote the OS loaders to the master drives 1dt partition, so
they are not present on the slave, therefore no boot from it. If booting
when small drive is presentand master, it finds those 3 ( or was it 4?) and
boots with no problem....
The files are ntloader , ntdetect.com and boot.ini (and probably, though it
doesn't matter at boot, pagefile.sys)...
To fix problem, remove smaller drive, jumper bigger as master, boot from XP
CD, choose repair when 1st possible, at "command"prompt type fixboot .


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[Mike Korkowski]

-----Original Message-----
Hi there,

I recently purchased a second hard drive for my PC for
video editing purposes. My original HDD is a 7200rpm
Seagate 40gig running XP Pro and the new one is the same
but an 80gig drive.

I originally had the 80gig drive set-up as a slave for
extra storage but decided to install a second copy of
Windows XP Pro on that drive and slowly set it up with
the intention to eventually ditch the original drive and
sell it.

The second drive works fine as a slave and it runs its
own operating system with no problems. However, if I try
to take out my original hard drive and have just my new
one as a master (now set-up as the master, of course,
with jumper settings all correct), I get a dos-style
error message saying 'Error loading OS' and no Windows
for me.

Can anybody help me with this problem? Please help.

Thanks in advance,

Matt
.

This is because your boot files are on your "original"
drive. Thes are hidden but you can still copy them from
the original drive. Look for:NTLDR,BOOT.INI AND
NTDETECT.COM These files are installed when you load an OS
to a drive. That is I am assuming your properly installed
WINXP. Also you have the copy protection issue. You must
have proper activation and that file may have been on your
old drive. When I get a new drive I set the old one as a
slave and the new one as the master then after boot at the
prompting software-MAXBLST etc. I do the "copy image". I
copy the exact image of the old drive to the new one that
has nothing on it. I usually reformat the old one and give
it to my kids once I know everything is working.
Mike