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Adding IDE Drive to New System with ATA / SATA Architecture
Finally got a new system, made my buy, no problem with Vista [ Hitachi HDP725
SCSI 160GB HD ], (new drive). Added Maxtor 'OneTouch' USB 500GB external HD for backup. I attached my Samsung SP1203N 120GB HD using a UDMA connection cable to the primary IDE connection on the system board. The OS is WinXP Pro SP2 When I rebooted I went to the BIOS to see the drive was recognized, and it showed an accurate approximation of used and available space. Exited BIOS, restarted, and came up to the "start option" for improper OS shut down / start correctly. Restarted, and the WinXP Pro SP2 I have on the drive will not start up. I'm not getting a 'blue' screen. When I connect the 'old' drive with the 'new' drive up and running the Vista, my 'old' drive isn't detected. Back in BIOS I noticed that my 'old' drive is either in the HD 1 or 2 slot and the 'new' drive is ALWAYS listed in the 3 slot. In short ... if I connect the old drive and restart the old drive comes up first, and the OS won't start. If I try to connect the old drive while running, detecting or adding hardware doesnt work and the drive will not show in "my computer". Is there a way for me to get around this problem without trying to repair / recover the XP on the old drive and save the data? I believe a repair or recover could ruin critical information. |
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Adding IDE Drive to New System with ATA / SATA Architecture
You allready have a thread on this in another group
multiposting causes confusion "Derek King" u48459@uwe wrote in message news:8f5bf1e14903c@uwe... Finally got a new system, made my buy, no problem with Vista [ Hitachi HDP725 SCSI 160GB HD ], (new drive). Added Maxtor 'OneTouch' USB 500GB external HD for backup. I attached my Samsung SP1203N 120GB HD using a UDMA connection cable to the primary IDE connection on the system board. The OS is WinXP Pro SP2 When I rebooted I went to the BIOS to see the drive was recognized, and it showed an accurate approximation of used and available space. Exited BIOS, restarted, and came up to the "start option" for improper OS shut down / start correctly. Restarted, and the WinXP Pro SP2 I have on the drive will not start up. I'm not getting a 'blue' screen. When I connect the 'old' drive with the 'new' drive up and running the Vista, my 'old' drive isn't detected. Back in BIOS I noticed that my 'old' drive is either in the HD 1 or 2 slot and the 'new' drive is ALWAYS listed in the 3 slot. In short ... if I connect the old drive and restart the old drive comes up first, and the OS won't start. If I try to connect the old drive while running, detecting or adding hardware doesnt work and the drive will not show in "my computer". Is there a way for me to get around this problem without trying to repair / recover the XP on the old drive and save the data? I believe a repair or recover could ruin critical information. |
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Adding IDE Drive to New System with ATA / SATA Architecture
With both drives connected, go into BIOS setup, and look for the Hard
Disk Boot Priority or Hard Disk Drives setting. Move to the top of the list the drive you want to boot from. On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:35:02 GMT, "Derek King" u48459@uwe wrote: Finally got a new system, made my buy, no problem with Vista [ Hitachi HDP725 SCSI 160GB HD ], (new drive). Added Maxtor 'OneTouch' USB 500GB external HD for backup. I attached my Samsung SP1203N 120GB HD using a UDMA connection cable to the primary IDE connection on the system board. The OS is WinXP Pro SP2 When I rebooted I went to the BIOS to see the drive was recognized, and it showed an accurate approximation of used and available space. Exited BIOS, restarted, and came up to the "start option" for improper OS shut down / start correctly. Restarted, and the WinXP Pro SP2 I have on the drive will not start up. I'm not getting a 'blue' screen. When I connect the 'old' drive with the 'new' drive up and running the Vista, my 'old' drive isn't detected. Back in BIOS I noticed that my 'old' drive is either in the HD 1 or 2 slot and the 'new' drive is ALWAYS listed in the 3 slot. In short ... if I connect the old drive and restart the old drive comes up first, and the OS won't start. If I try to connect the old drive while running, detecting or adding hardware doesnt work and the drive will not show in "my computer". Is there a way for me to get around this problem without trying to repair / recover the XP on the old drive and save the data? I believe a repair or recover could ruin critical information. |
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