Trouble installing new hard drive

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I'm trying to install a new hard drive. Setting it up as a slave to my
current "C" drive. I connect the power cable and the 25 pin data
cable. After hook up, the computer won't power up. It starts up and
after 2 seconds, shuts back down. Unplugging the new drive and the PC
boots up like normal.

The power and data cable can only be plugged in one way, so I don't have
them backwards.

Any idea what is causing the power to shut down right away?

Not that it matters since I can't boot, but I'm running
Windows XP home addition with SP3.
 
I'm trying to install a new hard drive.  Setting it up as a slave to my
current "C" drive.   I connect the power cable and the 25 pin data
cable.  After hook up, the computer won't power up.  It starts up and
after 2 seconds, shuts back down.   Unplugging the new drive and the PC
boots up like normal.

The power and data cable can only be plugged in one way, so I don't have
them backwards.

Any idea what is causing the power to shut down right away?

Not that it matters since I can't boot, but I'm running
Windows XP home addition with SP3.
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25 pin data cable??? Wrong! You either have an IDE (ribbon) cable or a
SATA cable. You have jumpers (five choices) between the power "in" and
IDE"? If you use the middle plug in the IDE, that is slave, so you set
the jumpers accordingly. CS is "Cable Select" which will/should work
in this case. "SL" is slave jumper. There should be a small sketch on
the Hard Drive showing jumper positions for whatever needs.
 
I'm trying to install a new hard drive.  Setting it up as a slave to my
current "C" drive.   I connect the power cable and the 25 pin data
cable.  After hook up, the computer won't power up.  It starts up and
after 2 seconds, shuts back down.   Unplugging the new drive and the PC
boots up like normal.

The power and data cable can only be plugged in one way, so I don't have
them backwards.

Any idea what is causing the power to shut down right away?

Not that it matters since I can't boot, but I'm running
Windows XP home addition with SP3.
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See "working end" of HDD ....
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I'm trying to install a new hard drive. Setting it up as a slave to my
current "C" drive. I connect the power cable and the 25 pin data
cable. After hook up, the computer won't power up. It starts up and
after 2 seconds, shuts back down. Unplugging the new drive and the PC
boots up like normal.

The power and data cable can only be plugged in one way, so I don't have
them backwards.

Any idea what is causing the power to shut down right away?

Not that it matters since I can't boot, but I'm running
Windows XP home addition with SP3.
Click to expand...


My C drive was causing the problem. It was the one causing the pwr to
shut down. Bummer, since it was my boot disk and had all my programs on
it. Darn thing was on it's last leg. Just for S & G, I put the drive
into the freezer for a couple hours. When I hooked it back up, it
booted up just fine.

So I quick hooked up the new drive and using Acronis, I ghosted to the
new drive. I'm back in business and didn't loose a bit of info.

Now, the weird thing is that when booting up, the bios shows the new
drive as a slave, even though it's the only drive and I double checked
the jumper. It is set for master. No big deal. As long as I'm back
in business, that's all I care about.

Hope this experience helps someone else out in the future.
 
My C drive was causing the problem. It was the one causing the pwr to
shut down. Bummer, since it was my boot disk and had all my programs on
it. Darn thing was on it's last leg. Just for S & G, I put the drive
into the freezer for a couple hours. When I hooked it back up, it
booted up just fine.

So I quick hooked up the new drive and using Acronis, I ghosted to the
new drive. I'm back in business and didn't loose a bit of info.

Now, the weird thing is that when booting up, the bios shows the new
drive as a slave, even though it's the only drive and I double checked
the jumper. It is set for master. No big deal. As long as I'm back
in business, that's all I care about.

Hope this experience helps someone else out in the future.
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If your jumper on the hard drive is set for CS (cable select) then the
IDE header that it's connected to determines if it's the master of the
slave drive. If it's on the end connector, then it's the slave and the
middle connector makes it the master.

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Roy Smith
Windows 7 Professional

Timestamp: Sunday, May 30, 2010 12:29:30 PM
 
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