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Mauricio
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      17th Aug 2003
hey, im sorry to say that i dont have a solution but i do
have the exact same problem. and i also have never used
the roxio program. please post if you get a fix for the
situatuion. thanks
>-----Original Message-----
>Hello,
>
>I recently assembled a new computer using bits of my old
>one. The motherboard and hard drive are new, and I
>installed Windows XP home edition. Then I fitted in my
>old hard drive as slave to the main hard drive. After
>much fiddling around with jumpers, connections etc... I
>have come to a strange situation. The BIOS recognises
>both my drives, and boots from the new one (master), and
>the second one appears in the system set-up of Windows,
>and is diagnosed as enabled and working properly.
>Nonetheless, it isn't available to save to or load from!
>I have two questions, if anyone can answer:
>
>- can I assume that since Windows recognises the drive as
>part of the set-up, then the problem is nothing to do

with
>jumpers?
>- How can I get Windows to work with a drive it

recognises?
>
>I don't know if this is relevant but my secondary hard
>drive is as I used it in my previous computer, with
>Windows ME installed. It's a 20GB Samsung drive bought

as
>part of a new computer in 2000.
>
>The only similar question I find in the knowledge base is
>330140, which says something about Roxio, a program I

have
>never used.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>.
>

 
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