I have an athalon 1200 on an asus a7a266 OS Winxp SP2 512mb onboard. Last year I replaced the main drive after four years of use with a Western Digital drive. recently on boot up, the system can no longer detect either the primary master or the primary slave drives. It does se the secondary slave as my Lite-On DVDRW SOHW-812s. Other than the master drive going away,(hopefully not) Is there any suggestions on what may have happened? The Asus MBO is 5 years old by the way.
Dell Dimension 4100 desk top Bios version AO6 Information on Primary IDE master-Primary slave are showing not installed how can I fix this without these computer will not boot up since OS is on primary master drive
I am trying to replace a failinf IDE drive with a SATA replacement. How do I make it bootable? I am using an ABIT VA-10 mobo, Win XP SP3, 1.5 GB DDR333 Ram, and a mix n' match collection of IDE and SATA HDD's? I cannot seem to get the mobo to recognize the SATA which is plugged into the primary IDE slot via a Silicon Graphics 680 adapter board. This of course fouls up my ability to boot from a CDROM drive as my secondary IDE port is supporting the original WD IDE drive and a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 SATA drive. At one point I was able to boot from either the primary master or the 2nd master. I have fiddled with XXclone and cannot seem to get the machine to recognize the Sata drive any more.
i have a maxtor 3.5 series 40G hard disk and when i turned on my computer it says primary hard disk fail. if i click F1 to continue it says disk boot failure what should i do guys need your help i have important ducoments in this hard disk my computer is a windows xp 2003 version with a OS is Windows 2000
I want to install a second disk to my PC, but I am not sure what the "exact" way to do as I heard something like "master/slave", setting jumper, etc. Can anyone guide me the installation?
I have an 160 Gb wD hardrive set to master on my Asus P4p800e deluxe mother.....I would like to know If I could add an extra hardrive sata as a slave...The reason for this is becuase I want to keep diffrent files in here...But I don' know id this could be done...Do I need to dual Boot and install the same Operating system in the Sata...I know my motherboard supports sata Ide and Raid disks...and if its not possible ...Can you tell me another way to add a second drive without dual booting,...I just want my drive to appear in my computer so I could save different files
I am running XP Pro on a rebuilt Dell PIII. The original hard drive is 7G, so I added a 300G slave for storage. My plan now was to change the 300G drive to the Master drive. I reformatted, booted from my XP disc & installed the OS on the "new" 300G drive. Then I switched the jumper & cable so it was in the master position.and nothing.
It starts up, tells me to hit F2 for setup or F1 to continue. When I hit F1, it goes to a blank screen with flashing cursor, but no command line
I was messing with partitioning my hard drive. Nothing challenging, but it seemed to work. But then partition magic said the entire drive was "BAD" and had no partitions, knowing full well it had four.
My computer still worked. Then it would get to where it was restarting on its own for no reason. Then sometimes the bios recognized the master and the slave drive and loaded, but most of the time it didn't recognize either, and wouldn't load. Sometimes it just recognized one drive.
I had thought maybe the MBR was messed up. But then why wouldn't the bios recognize the drives every time. And if one drive was messed up, that wouldn't effect the bios would it
I got my master disk crashed and now I have replaced the disk and installed the new WinXP.How can I connect the old crashed master disk back to the bus and installed as the slave disk.I guess the old disk is not crashed seriously and I am trying to recover some of the data.I have tried to connect the old crashed disk to the slave position and have the jumper setting correct.However, the BIOS does not detect both of them and complains cannot find any OS.
I have seen this messge twice. Once on a friends PC and just now on mine. My computer has been running for maybe... 3 days straight now. I turned it off for about 3 hours to keep my room cool. I turned it back on an heard "beep...beep...beep...beep" (the same beep you hear if the ram isn't snapped in the socket all the way) and at the boot up it said "Primary slave hard disk fail" XP would not start. So i hit the reset button, same thing, hit it again, same thing. Powered off and powered back on and it started up fine.
I used Regseeker *sigh* and now my slave drive is not detected. It does not show up in the device manager list. What may I have removed to cause this? I think Regseeker backed up the registry files I deleted. I tried to restore the files and received an error...
I just got a new 300 GB Seagate internal hard drive installed after running out of space on my 40 GB one. I need to know how to move stuff off the 40 GB master drive to my 300 GB slave drive. I'm using Windows XP.
current HD going bad, have second HD installed and using as back but now i need to make the second HD my primary, can i do this without having to reformat in order to add booting files.
I just installed Windows Xp on a brand new HDD. The previous hard drive had Windows 2000, and since I didn't want to lose any files I installed that drive as the slave. But when I boot the machine up. And select the slave drive, none of the files, such as pictures, word docs, etc. are there. The folders are blank. The jumper pin setting is correct because the picture is right on the label for the drive
I have been running my pc with XP Proffesional Edition:1.4MHZ AMD Athlon (I think!!) 700Mb RAM20GB HDD256MB Graphics CardDVD Rom Not sure what the motherboard is, my HDD has the 'old' IDE connections.Anyway, everything has been running fine, so I decided to install a DVD RW unit instead of my CD/DVD unit. That's when my problems started.PC now won't boot, asks me to install the boot device or something like that and when I check the BIOS, it says that the Pri / Sec units not installed. Even when I run the auto detection it still says the same thing. I've tried re-installing the old CD/DVD unit but it keeps coming up with the same message.
Ok so i had to drives on my pc and decided to add one of my old ones i had so now i can get none of the 1 of the old two and the new one i wanted to add don't know how to put the jumpers ok I have the DVD/Drive and My master (OS/WD) and my other two are Maxtor i think not 100% sure so how would i put them
Can I just put a Samsung HD253GJ with Windows XP Pro w/ Service Pack 3 preloaded hard drive in a dell p-490 as the primary drive. Plug and play or...what would i need to do?
I just purchased a new hard drive and when I boot to the XP Pro CD I press Enter to install XP but I get the following screen. "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer". This is the only hard drive in the system. When it first boots up I see Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG then it detects the Main Processor then detects IDE Drives GigaRAID BIOS V1.36 F/W Ver 02093030 it detects the new hard drive in Drive 1 - IDE 1 then siI 3112A SATALink Host Controller Bios Version 4.2.00 It doesnt find a primary drive
Is there any difference between the primary and secondary IDE channels? I have my hard drive on secondary and my DVD 16X burner on primary. I tried this because when I put my DVD burner on secondary it would only get Multi-Word DMA mode 2 while the HDD got UDMA mode 5 on the primary. This is a new burner and capable of UDMA 4. After troubleshooting I switched channels and got UDMA mode 4 on the DVD burner when on the primary as master and still got UDMA mode 5 on the only HDD on the secondary as master. I don't understand the difference and the computer works fine and it appears I am getting the transfer modes I am supposed to.
I did unistall the 2 Primary IDE Drivers (IDE0 and SATA0), I wnated to get out of conflice between my IDE Controllers and my Onboard Sound Device."Gigabyte 8IG1000Pro-G rev1.2 motherboard with 865G Intel Chipset supporting AC'97 Audio from Realtek Onboard"" this is My configuration. Sometime in the past, I'd been hearing sound problems when trying to burn CD's or Copy contents to Harddrive, I unistalled the Secondary IDE and Reinstalled (it was very hard to reistall!) and the problem was gone. Now. I have the same Problem with My Harddrives, so I did Unistall both primary IDEs and I cannot install them anymore. It says: "Code 28 the driver is not intended for the platform" and the driver remains as IDE Channel with a yellow exclamation mark.
When i turn my laptop on it says no operating system i have no master disc for it and i have no master disc for my pc is there any way i can put it on disc
I had a two seperate versions of windows installed on two seperate hard drives, when i turn the computer on it asks me which one i want to boot from. well the second hard drive is now dying and somtimes it tells me DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT BOOT DISK AND PRESS ENTER. now this only happends when the second hard drive doesnt work. I have tried to just unplug the second drive to see if it would boot off of the original copy on the first drive but i get the same thing.
I deleted the priamry partition on my gateway computer. Windows XP. Is my home computer and it was infected with tons of viruses. I think I screw up big time. I keep putting the recovery Cd back in, but at one point it doesn't recognice some of the files that is uploading. After a while it goes to a black screen.
I was about to reformat my C: (that has an nonworking windows partition) from my current partition D:. I went to my Computer D Management and it said that my C: was a primary partition [green] while my current one was a logic partition blue.boxed in green. Someone at Yahoo! Answers said not reformat the C: because it would screw up my D; Drive. Is it safe? What should I do? I just wish to use my C drive for data storage and my D drive as a Windows partition.
Problem with XP pro finding slave drive, I installed a 200 Gig maxtor drive set up as a slave funny thing it see's the drive in defrag but it does not see it in My Computer or Explorer, I have uninstalled it and installed it 2 or 3 times and when I do it installs the Maxtor slave back and even say's your new hardware is installed and ready to use but you can't see it except in defrag now that is a new one for me.
I need to know if I can take a drive out of my friend's tower, and put it in my tower as a slave drive to format it, will it be a bootable drive back in my friend's tower? Or will it still read as a slave drive with no OS files? I have to do this because my friend lost his Win XP Pro SP1 disk, and all I have is a Win XP Pro disk with no SP on it, I have a separate downloaded SP1 file, but if I try to use that, it will chop their harddrive from 200 gigs down to 130'ish, like it did with my 160 gig drive Or maybe I could create a new Windows install CD with SP1 on it already.
