Drive works as slave not as master?!?!?

Posted: 12-02-2003, 03:35 PM

Kibosh

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I installed a new drive into my PC and ran the Western
Digital data copy software. This completes without problem
and I can see the drive and use it. As soon as I remove my
old master and change the jumpers on the new one to be the
master, XP does not start up completely. It gets to the
Windows logo screen (with the green moving bar) and then
comes up with a error screen. It says something about new
hardware could be causing this error and would I like to
start windows normally, from the last known configuration,
safe mode, etc. When I try any of these options, it comes
right back to this error screen.

It almost appears as though XP checks volume serial
numbers?

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Timothy Daniels

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Re: Drive works as slave not as master?!?!?

Posted: 12-03-2003, 07:34 PM

"Kibosh" wrote:

> I installed a new drive into my PC and ran the Western
> Digital data copy software. This completes without problem
> and I can see the drive and use it.

Does "use it" mean - that you can access it or that you
can boot from it as well?

> As soon as I remove my
> old master and change the jumpers on the new one to be the
> master, XP does not start up completely.

Do you move the new drive's position on the cable,
do you move it to another channel, do you move it to
the position of the old drive? Did you change the
BIOS boot sequence? Whaaat? You're telling us
enough.

> It gets to the
> Windows logo screen (with the green moving bar) and then
> comes up with a error screen. It says something about new
> hardware could be causing this error and would I like to
> start windows normally, from the last known configuration,
> safe mode, etc. When I try any of these options, it comes
> right back to this error screen.
>
> It almost appears as though XP checks volume serial
> numbers?

Go to C:\boot.ini, and open it with Notepad, and show
us what it says.

*TimDaniels*

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