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DMA Settings for Slave Drive on Win XP
I had a hard drive crash so I went out a bought a new one and installed it. I found out that it didn't crash it was hit with a virus. I got rid of the virus and installed the old hard drive as a slave drive because I have pictures on it that I want. Now the profile that the pictures are under were password

Harddrive or XP problem?
For work I need a XP install to run a VPN client. I tried to do this using Virtual PC in Vista--but the whole thing was just too slow. So, I installed XP Professional on a slave hard drive. Afterwards, I followed some directions I found to create a dual boot menu here:

New Disk Drive
#What other drives are attached to the IDE channel Primary : 'The' Drive (master) 17Gb slave Secondary : DVD #What did the BIOS report the drive as BIOS reported correctly. Bootup reported correctly first 4 times then reported drive failure. #Which version of XP were you using XP Pro. No idea on edition.

Disk Boot Failure New Windows XP Installation
Ghalleck, the hard drive with the 60 GB of data was set as a slave on the primary IDE controller. The XP Pro was installed in a 80gb Master HD. All jumper were set correctly because they were working perfectly in XP Pro. When I bought the Seagate 200gb HD, it was installed and partitioned under the XP Pro.

Boot to XP or Win98 (2 hard drives) ?
Youre present hd is internal & runs thru an IDE cable,set new as slave on same cable (original at farthest connection),in xp,format the new hd (run I want to clone the new hard drive and keep it as a back up in case my original hard drive ever fails. My question is what is the easiest method and recommended

Win XP and slave hard drive
Rich Barry rba...@socal.rr.com microsoft public windowsxp general Have you tried Cable Select instead of Slave on the drive jumper? <dros...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1172337566.838228.247910@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com... Hello, everyone. I recently came into possession of an old Maxtor 80GB hard drive,

Ping: John Corliss-was OT:Can't Delete Folder in Win XP
DVD writer set as primary slave. I've had no problems until recently, when the setup stops trying to 'Auto detect Primary Master'. Then it eventually finds aa hard drive, then stops at 'Autodetecting secondary master'. Then it eventually finds my second drive. Then it shows the Windows loading screen but for a very

XP and slave hard drive
I just purchased a new hard drive for my 600 MHz Gateway System. I would like to install my downloaded RC1 on this hard drive. This new hard drive is 30 GB whereas my old hard drive is 13 GB. Therefore, I would like to have the 30 GB drive as my master with Windows XP RC1 and my 13 GB drive as my slave running

Win XP keeps "finding new hardware" on reboots
nelly neil...@hotmail.com alt os windows-xp You would be best to swap the Primary master & the Secondary slave disks and set the jumpers accordingly. The boot drive should be the primary master drive. The master drives should be on the end connector with the slave drives on the middle connector.

Windows XP Pro won't recognize second hard drive
Then run XP install again and when it prompts you, allow it to format your drive or the partition of your choice. By the way, I have two hard drives in my computer as well. If I do a fresh reinstall and make a mistake, I can easily go back by switching cable locations and cloning the ex-slave onto the ex-master.

Installed Slave Drive Not Recognized by W XP
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:12:00 -0800, tomjonesrocks <tomjonesrocks@discussions. microsoft.com> wrote: For work I need a XP install to run a VPN client. I tried to do this using Virtual PC in Vista--but the whole thing was just too slow. So, I installed XP Professional on a slave hard drive. Afterwards, I followed some

Second OP's on Slave drive
The slave drive on the primary cable will not run in anything but pio mode even though it is supposed to be a udma 100 hard drive. I managed to find an article on microsoft's site about this issue in windows 2000 and since xp is really just an update of 2000 I'm wondering if the issue is related.

Can't access slave hard drive after XP install
... 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, and take ownership. 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?

Slave Hard Drive doesn't show in My Comuter
Plug it into the slave connector on your ide cable that goes to your master hard drive. When you boot, go into the bios and make sure it sees the 2nd hard drive - if not, it probably is not set to auto-detect and you will need to change it to that. Once you see it in the bios, exit out and let the system boot into

cannot access data files
Wayne "kyle" <k...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5CBC53A2-2D2A-469B-9A12-C7D28386C719@microsoft.com... After installing windows xp i can not acces my storage hard drive. when i click on the drive in windows explorer it says "the disk in drive D is not formatted. Would you like to format now?

Multi-Boot - XP on Master / 98SE on Slave?
2) As a back up, can I copy my documents, emails, itunes, etc. to my D (second hard drive). Yes. Second physical drive or second partition on a single physical drive. I guess another option would be to physically remove the D drive. (I have cable select vs master and slave if that makes a difference).

True Image 11 back up C: Restore to D: then boot to D:
Depending on the hard drive, there may be two settings for Master. One for a master that is by itself and has no slave on the same cable. You can monitor the Pagefile usage using the built-in tools in XP or some 3rd party system utilities. You don't move the Pagefile, XP will build it.

XP home, 2nd HD, slave/master and "pagefile" questions. (All ...
earthcharter.net> wrote: make sure its a 80 conductor ribbon The computer is acompaqsr2150nx(cheapy but seems fine for what we use it for) and the dvd drive is connected to the mobo via an ide dual drive ribbon (one unused i would assume for this sort of application since it's located where a new drive can be

Installing extra hard drive on xp system to retireve data
I have never, and I mean never, had a problem with a Western Digital Hard Drive. My last Maxtor shit the bricks about seven years ago. I'm WD all the way now! Is there some quirk with XP that won't allow you to swap in drives which have an OS on them, even if they're a slave? Thanks. .

Vista install on old crashed hard drive
I want to add a second hard drive with XP also. In other words I don't want any special dual booting or multiple OS's just a simple two drive system with XP on both drives. At the moment I have the existing drive on the primary master with my cdrom drive as slave and a burner on the secondary master.