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Help! Slave Hard Drive shown as Foreign and won't display
You can test the cables by using all connections on whichever drive will boot. In other words try everything you can think of. Good Luck Richard -----Original Message----- I was on Win2000 Professional. My computer has 2 hard drive, one is configured as slave. I decided to upgrade to Win XP Professional, therefore,

Two questions before I reinstall XP
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" 20 GB drive and XP on the new Western Digital.

Can't get access to my second hard drive. *** I got it back ...
Before I try to do a repair option from my OEM Win XP disk, I thought of another option: I made a complete copy of my hard drive to an external HD before adding the second HD? If I do a full restore from my back up (this will take about 9 hours), would/should that work? Or... since my D drive is pretty much a

Slave drive, modem drivers
The harddrive does not have an OS on it. This should not matter at all. Just boot into Win2K on HD0, for example, and read all of HD1, just as you read your floppy diskette and your CD/DVD drive, USB "thumb drive", etc. Important to know that I was able to access this second harddrive before I installed XP home on

File and Settings Transfer Wizard
The grey connector is always slave. The blue connector always connects to motherboard or add-in UDMA controller. ONLY if cable select is used. 11. Power the system on. At the Windows desktop, double click the My Computer icon. The newly installed boot drive will appear as drive letter C. 12. The old hard drive can

How Move OS XP from Old to New HD?
Thorsten Matzner tmatz...@gmx.net microsoft public windowsxp customize "Paul Moser" <pmo...@luc.edu> wrote: Will Win XP Pro read a slave hard drive that has been formatted in Win NT 4? That should work. Windows XP uses a newer version of NTFS but it can handle older NTFS drives as well.. -- (tm)

XP install to slave
Well, I attempted a reboot from the slave drive and entered GOBACK before the BIOS tried to find and load Windows XP. I disabled GOBACK which meant I then rebooted in Windows XP from the C: drive. The slave drive then had a "D:"drive letter and the files were available for use.. Then, I formatted the D: drive

Adding a second hard drive with Win XP
Sue McCartin suemccar...@mindspring.com alt comp periphs mainboard gigabyte I'm having a problem under windows xp. I've got the Ga7DXR original motherboard with the latest bios(F9). 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.

Cannot access files in My Docs on a slave drive with XP
You answer about reinstating the original C drive and going from there probably makes the most sense. By the way, I used Western Digitals's copy software that came with the new harddrive to copy the original. And it's not just the Norton software that will not install, it's most things -- Dell Deminsion 8250 Win XP

Computer Failure
I can go back and forth as much as I want between the boot CD and Windows, but I simply cannot get this hard drive to show itself in Windows. Thank you for any suggestions. -Dave On Feb 24, 3:04 pm, "Rich Barry" <rba...@socal.rr.com> wrote: Have you tried Cable Select instead of Slave on the drive jumper?<dros.

How to remove slave drive from XP
I installed Vista on a new hard drive and used my old hard drive as a slave drive. The old hard drive had Windows XP Pro and Outlook Express. I have 5 years of saved messages on the old hard drive plus hundreds of contacts. I tried the new Vista Windows Mail import process and pointd to my old Outlook Express

Primary Slave drive disappeared after updating to Windows XP
It runs the Windows XP Home operating system. The computer came installed with a Western Digital WD800 hard drive (80 Gb). I purchased a Western Digital From this report, I cannot find anything that would indicate that the new 120 Gb Western Digital "Slave" hard drive is not completely functioning properly.

Primary Slave Hard Disk Drive not found in Windows XP
"Jim Sims" wrote: A friend updated his operating system from Windows 2000 to Windows XP Home. After the new OS was installed, with related chipset drivers, the hard drive on the Primary Slave drive does not appear in the root directory. It does show up in Disk Manager but instead of indicating "Online",

Clone Additonal Hard Drive for Back Up
Note: any previously explicit ownership settings for this drive will be reset. -----Original Message----- I'm currently running Windows XP Pro on a PIII GHz PC. My main Hard Drive is a Maxtor 40 GB set as the primary master (no primary slave), with a Pioneer DVD-ROM as my secondary master with an 80 GB Maxtor HD as

resuscitating hard drive which wont format FAT
So, I installed XP Professional on a slave hard drive. Afterwards, I followed some directions I found to create a dual boot menu here: http://windowssecrets.com/2008/02/14/01-Make-your-computer-dual-boot-Vista-and-XP Everything works fine--but ONLY if I have the Vista install CD in my CD/DVD drive.

Dual Boot 98SE and XP on two hard drives with PartitionMagic
If it is an IDE drive, set it as Master. Attach the external hard drive and boot with the TI bootable CD. Restore the image to this drive. 5. Boot into XP. 6. Shut down/unplug the computer and connect the second hard drive which will hold Vista. If it is IDE set it as Slave. You now have both hard drives in the

Installing New hard Drive with Xp and NTFS
Thorsten Matzner tmatz...@gmx.net microsoft public windowsxp customize "Paul Moser" <pmo...@luc.edu> wrote: Many thanks! --Paul You are welcome. -- (tm)

will xp hard drive work as a slave on new vista system
If you boot to the XP CD you will see options to pick the partition you want to install to, pick the one that matches the size or label of the new hard drive you put in , winXP will do the rest. -----Original Message----- Old hard drive is slave D:\ with Win98 New hard drive is primary C:\ just formatted If I boot

Two questions before I reinstall XP
I have a problem with being able to boot to my hard drive. Ended up have to put in a new hard drive and use "old" in the slave position. On new hard drive have windows xp pro and old is win 2000. How do I move my old e-mails and addresses from old to new?

Old hard drive as slave with OS installed Win XP Home
Pull the jumper on the slave drive, and replace it with a pigtail to a single pole switch, to switch the slave drive's jumper in and out. Apparently the system with They are not partitions, i have a 80Gb HD with XP (primary) and a 20Gb HD with Win98 on. www.xosl.org Allows booting from a secondary hard drive.