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DMA Settings For Slave Drive on Win XP
I was also told by Dell that they wouldn't support the second hard drive (even though I bought it from them) and by installing it (if I could), The main purpose I wanted a second hard drive was for backup, so the peerless serves that purpose. It works like a dream. Karin <snip> Karin- You were given bad

Missing Slave Hard Drive After XP Re-install
D.Currie dmbcur...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp basics You might be better off if you set one drive as master and the other as slave rather than using When XP did that, I noticed my second hard drive was missing. Ok, I unplugged the card reader, took all the usb hubs out of device mgr and rebooted.

Second hard drive disappearing. new pc
How did you jumper the drive - Master/Slave or Cable Select ? Also is the IDE channel using just the single drive or do you have devices on both taps ? I installed new hard drive and loaded/formated drive from XP installation CD. Each time system comes up, it comes up with Press F1 or F2 key.

Reading partitions on a slave drive in XP
Penny wrote: I have installed a new master hard drive, using my old hard drive as my slave. Win XP does not recognize the old hard drive. I need to transfer data from the old hard drive to the new one. Booting from the old hard drive is not an option due to a software problem that necessitated the new master.

Win XP does not recognize slave drive
Since I upgraded from ME, my Maxtor 88400D8 secondary drive, which is detected in start up /bios as 8.2GB, only shows 1.2GB in windows explorer. I have tried re-installing it, checked jumpers etc, and it remains at 1.2GB according to XP! Any suggestions, I need the space! Thanks Jacques Gallagher .

Import From Outlook Express
Jeff Texter jtex...@cox.net microsoft public windowsxp accessibility Hi, I have a computer which has XP installed on the master Hard Drive, HDD 0. In order to transfer all of my files, I installed another hard drive, HDD 1, into the new computer as a SLAVE. The files transfers work well, except for access My

Can not install programs
Harry Crusty Old Bastard wrote: New drive = primary, old drive = slave. Install the operating system onto a primary partition on the new hard drive (C:). The old drive, because it I'm expecting to buy a new computer, w/XP installed. My current comp'r is a Compaq Presario 5220, which is close to three years old.

Vista now needs CD to boot after installing XP on slave--suggestio
Is there a downside to not having XP be the Master? 3. Is it possible even if not quite as easy to have XP be the Master drive and 98SE be the Slave drive and still have multi-boot work? 4. Is there an easy way to eventually remove the multi-boot and make XP the only hard drive as Master?

Ga7DXR and windows xp, slave drive on primary cable runs in pio ...
Several years ago, I upgraded to XP Pro. After getting XP Pro, I added a slave hard drive. I want to buy a new PC and have two questions... 1) I want to reformat the hard drive on the new PC (which will probably be Vista) and get a clean install of the XP Pro that I already bought. Is this possible?

Vista now needs CD to boot after installing XP on slave--suggestio
gmail.com wrote: I have an internal hard drive hooked up as a slave to a computer and a USB external connected. I am trying to copy about 80 gigs to the external Oh and this is being done on Windows XP and both the internal slave and the external drive are NTFS partitions. Any ideas why it is taking so long?

install XP on slave drive?
Someone familiar with Win 2000/XP may be a better candidate to troubleshoot her drive. I strongly suggest you go no further unless it is understood by your daughter that When I installed this Windows XP HD into my computer as Primary Master (with no other as slave), the Bios Setup detected it as Primary Master,

Ga7DXR and windows xp, slave drive on primary cable runs in ...
Undaunted1 undaunt...@hotmail.com comp sys ibm pc hardware storage I recently installed Windows XP Home on a two-year old Micron system. I installed a new 40 GB Western Digital hard drive, set it up as the slave, and did a clean install of XP onto it. I now have dual boot capability with Windows 98se on the "old"

hard drive problem
The best way to clone/mirror IDE hds is to set new hd as slave to current C: on same IDE cable.Format the hd in xp,once thru,go to run,type:XCOPY C:\*. I alerady have a second internal hard drive and two externals to handle my files and backups, so not gettin gthis up and running is a non starter.

Adding slave drive causes XP to pause indef. on startup
I have Xp disk a new 10 gb hard drive (still in the box) I am running win 98 currently,the question I have is can I install win xp on the new hard drive and switch the jumper pins to make my disk with win 98 on it to a slave drive, will I be able to transfer files etc to the new Xp HD then erase the old win HD and

Multi-Boot - XP on Master / 98SE on Slave?
HOW TO Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q308421 Install the old drive as a slave drive instead of master, I've changed the hard drive and the system now works, but I have a ton of data on the old drive. Any idea how I can access this info?

Possible to format slave hard drive in Windows XP?
My computer has a master (10 GB 5400 rpm) hard drive and a slave (20 GB 7200 rpm). I have Win98SE but want to upgrade to XP. Can I install Upgrade XP to the slave drive and use the slave to boot? I would rather not go through the hassle of physically switching drives, installing Win98SE on the new master,

Installing extra hard drive on xp system to retireve data
How many hard drives? How many partitions? Are you using a third-party boot manager? RC "William B. Lurie" <billu...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:3F2B9FD0.787DE3E4@bellsouth.net... My PC came with XP Pro, and with a Conexant 56K modem and drivers. I installed a Slave hard drive and put XP Pro on it as a

using old HD as slave in new comp w/XP
LiveWire y...@hright.com alt windows-xp Is it possible to Format this 2nd hard drive from within Windows XP Yes, go to: Control Panel > Administrative tools > Computer Management > Disk Management If you right click on the drive at the bottom of the screen it should give you the option to format. -- LiveWire.

Clone Additonal Hard Drive for Back Up
Gerald Ross gwa...@netcommander.com microsoft public windowsxp customize I just installed a second hard drive in my brother's XP. It was the hard drive from his old Win98 computer. This drive had jumpers and I set the jumpers to slave, hooked it up and turned it on. Win XP found the drive right off and named it,

Transferring XP and an XP Slave drive
Hi guys I am fairly confident I can do this but just want to check if there are any pitfalls I should watch out for in installing extra hard drive on my p/c I wish to put the hard drive from old defunct p/c (this no longer works) onto my new xp m/c as a slave hard drive and transfer data from old hard drive to new