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Return of a faulty hard drive
-----Original Message----- To give a short history, I had a 60GB hard drive with Windows XP running smoothly and correctly. I was cleaning off old ZIP Not thinking clearly, I tried rebooting my computer and realized that I had screwed up by not copying my important personal files over to my 30GB slave drive.

Win XP and slave hard drive
Jason Tsang jason-online...@ETEmvps.org microsoft public windows mediacenter I would be surprised if XP (either Pro or Home) would give you a different result, i simply unplugged the slave drive... redid the os on the primary drive, then plugged it back in. now Disk Management says its unallocated space? im

Old PC hard-drive for back-up storage
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,type:diskmgmt.msc) "ColTom2" wrote: Hi: I have a Sony VGC-RA716G desktop computer with a WD2500BB 250GB hard drive and have purchased another exact WD hard drive.

Slave drive for XP
Have you changed the "slave" setting on the old hard drive to "master"? "you now have to reboot with original boot disk, which you no longer have"??????? Doesn't make sense!!!! "tntony" wrote: Hello, I have 2 pc's with xp, each with ide drives, One crashed, so I removed the hard drive to run as a slave on my other

Hard Drive
Shut down your machine, and swap the master and slave jumpers on both the drives. (Make the old drive the slave, and the new drive the master). Turn on your machine. While it's running the memory check, put your XP install CD in your CDROM. Let it boot off the CDROM. Go ahead and install XP to the new hard drive.

Windows XP downsizes my slave hard drive
BF b...@adelphia.net alt windows-xp microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support Bryan R. Meyer wrote: I just purchased a new hard drive to complement an older, smaller drive I have. I made the new drive a slave and installed Windows XP on it from the CD. Now, both the old and new hard drives have installations of

New Disk Drive
However I then put it in the computer as a slave and it SEEMS to work perfectly as a slave in Windows XP?? I haven't tried running any utilities on it as I did the upgrade Western Digital merely told me that this MAY mean that the hard drive has failed and can or cant be resuscitated, which covers most bases.

Vista now needs CD to boot after installing XP on slave--suggestio
The problem is I broke my golden rule of not backing up my stuff because I wasn't going to do anything with the other hard drive so I figured it was safe. I can't reformat unless that is absolutely the only way. I will lose very important stuff. Anyway, is there something I can do to find this second hard drive?

XP and Hard Drive Upgrade
When finishing I will go back into that slave hard drive and convert it into master, Remove the master I was Drive imaging and place back the Back-up copy The rest of the PC is now beautifully silent but for the last 2 weeks I have been trying to copy my windows XP installation to the new quieter faster HDD.

Why is it taking days to copy 80gigs from internal to external ...
The situation is I have a 4.5 year old PIII 733 with 768MB Memory running a single hard drive with Windows 98SE. I plan to purchase a brand new hard drive, install it as the Master and set the jumpers to the existing hard drive with Windows 98SE to make it slave. I'd then like to do a clean install of XP on the new

Slave Drive
From that paragraph, it appears a drive can be a slave without being configured as a slave with the jumpers. It apparently directs you to configure both drives, new and old, as Cable Select. Further on in the Answer, the directions are to. "2. Confirm that the new hard drive is installed and detected by the system

Slave drive not there after XP instalation
My eyes got tired from crying/laughing :-) Here you go, first off on the primary IDE controller keep the hard drive you now have on there and buy a Maxtor. Maxtor has a utility that works much better that the Western Digital crap. Set the Maxtor as a Slave drive (Not cable select and take the 30 gig limit jumper

Missing Slave Hard Drive After XP Re-install
For that reason, I won't even touch XP or Vista. I'm not sure of WinME allows for this or not. The whole issue comes down to the format of the hard drive. In other words, my OS and programs are on the FIRST harddrive. My storage is all on a SECOND (slave) drive. I have a 3rd drive, which is where I moved a

New Hard Drive/dual boot/Master-Slave
dbcurrie dmbcur...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment I never trust any single hard drive for files that I would be upset to lose. While XP shouldn't bother "Tbird" <lahow...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: I've seen in some posts that installing Windows XP raises havoc with data in a slave drive.

how to install a slave hard drive on windows xp
"Ray" wrote: Greetings, I just completed a re-install of XP and find that Windows doesn't show my 200 Gb Seagate. Prior to the re-stall both the "C" and "D" drives were present. The "D" or "slave" does show during the BIOS sequence and I ran a Seagate utility that also shows it's there.

finding slave hard drive in XP Pro
Its rather simpler for someone like you to use a real boot manager which can hide the drive you arent booting from etc. If I install either Windows 2000 or Windows XP without the existence of another slave hard drive inside the computer, there is no physical drive to keep track of. Yes, but when you boot the slave,

XP boot problem
You must not install it on a slave disk, and you must not install it on a disk connected to the secondary controller. - While installing any new OS (eg Windows XP), you must make the target drive the FIRST VISIBLE primary partition on the primary master disk. After the OS is installed, run XOSL to selectively hide

Hard Disk driver problem - XP accept 200 Gb drives?
Maxtor drives sometimes have a more complicated Jumpering scheme that just a simple Master/Slave/CS. I'd suggest you get the Maxtor jumper settings and make sure if it's 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.

Choosing a boot sequence depending on the hard drive of your ...
Rich Barry rba...@socal.rr.com microsoft public windowsxp perform_maintain If they are both formatted using NTFS then Yes. "Paul Moser" <pmo...@luc.edu> wrote in message news:0c0201c31edd$c96faa10$a501280a@phx.gbl... Will Win XP Pro read a slave hard drive that has been formatted in Win NT 4?

Adding additional hard drive
If the appropriate hard drives jumpers are set to slave and master is there any danger of booting to the wrong (in this case Windows 95 instead of XP) drive? Would this be easy to correct if it did? "Dragan Colak" <dragan_co...@gmx.de> wrote in message news:a6dn20$dm6r1$1@ID-72169.news.dfncis.de.