Transfer hard disk drive

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George Mather

I'm using Windows XP Professional in a new PIV machine
whose C drive is a WD 120 GB set up for the NTFS file
system. I also have a WD 60 GB drive formated for FAT32,
which I've transferred from my previous machine and for
use as a slave on the same IDE cable. The 60 GB has never
been used as a boot drive, so it doesn't contain system
files.

The machine finds both drives automatically, and I'm able
to access files from the 60 GB drive. Also, the device
manager tells me that all is OK. However, every time I
boot, Windows XP tells me that it's found and installed
the 60 GB drive, and that it may not work properly until
I reboot the machine. I've done this multiple times, but
the message keeps appearing (though the drive works fine).

In the Help and Support documentation, I see advice that
I need to initialize the drive. When I use the wizard to
do this, I get the following error message:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: LDM
Event Category: None
Event ID: 2
Date: 11/2/2003
Time: 12:44:50 PM
User: N/A
Computer: DANEKA
Description:
Unspecified error (80004005).

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

I haven't been able to find anything useful yet at the
recommended site.

The drive remains uninitialized, and the boot message
persists, so Windows clearly thinks something is wrong.
I've tried both cable select and master/slave hookups,
but get the same results.

Can anyone suggest what might be wrong, and how to get
past this problem?

Thanks ...

George Mather
 
Hi,
Hi,

Are you using add new hardware wizard?

Try this way:

Right click on My Computer, click "manage", in the drop
down list, click "disk management".
In the lower right pane, you can see the new harddisk,
move the mouse pointer to that drive and right click and
select initialize.

Hope it helps.

Peter
 
Hi, Peter -

Thanks for this suggestion, but yes, this is how I get
the Unspecified error (80004005) I mentioned - and when
I return to the wizard, the indication is that the disk
is still not initialized. This, plus the boot up message,
tells me somethings wrong - I just don't have a clue what
it might be. I see nothing that says I can't run FAT32 on
one disk and NTFS on the other, so I haven't tried to
convert the slave yet.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks!

George
 
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