You know, there are moments in life when you feel that
you've made yourself the object of ridicule to the point
where the whole world is laughing at you. They may be
moments such as walking out of a bathroom into a crowded
public environment (i.e. airport) with toliet paper stuck
to your shoe, walking into a solid wall because you
were "checking out a hot babe", or even realizing that
you've been walking about all day with your fly unzipped.
Now, a tiny, tiny piece of plastic has turned this into
one of those episodes.
Thanks, DL. In my rush to fix this weeklong, $420 in
cost, and my lost data, I forgot about moving that tiny
piece of plastic to make my old drive the slave. Worked
like a charm.
Rob
>-----Original Message-----
>The old disk is jumpered as slave? with new as master?
>The boot order is set correctly in the bios?
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>"Rob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>news:3a2101c429b7$25e90a40$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Since I got fantastic help earlier this week from this
>> community newsgroup, I thought that I would try again.
I
>> have a pretty long story, so here goes...
>>
>> Sony RXA-842 (AMD 2400+ Athlon, 80G Samsung HD, Samsung
>> 512MB PC-2100 DDR) crashed on shutdown Monday with a
Page
>> fault in non-paged area (0x00000050 error). Computer
>> rebooted straight to the blue screen of death. Windows
>> support site gave error code that it was probably a
faulty
>> RAM. Went out and bought two new Kingston 512MB PC2100
DDR
>> (they were on sale so why not two, but only one is in).
>> Start up again...blue screen of death. Safe mode, Last
>> known good config, even advanced setup of restoring
>> defaults...all blue screen of death. Tried Windows six
3
>> 1/2 disk boot set and got an error in ntfs.sys file and
>> boot crashed each time. Final desperation...bought new
>> Maxtor 80G HD, installed it making it the primary drive
>> during setup, used my restore disks, computer booted up
>> perfectly. Shut it down, plugged in the old drive to
see
>> if it would read it as the secondary and I got the error
>> to "Load system disks". Didn't know what it meant so I
>> rebooted and immediately got into the advanced setup to
>> see what was going on. After I had saved my advanced
>> setup with the Maxtor as the primary, somehow the BIOS
>> read the old Samsung as designated that as a primary
>> instead. Shut off computer, unplugged the old one,
>> restarted, shut down, restarted into advanced setup and
>> wow, the Maxtor is the designated primary. Shut it
down,
>> plugged the old one back in again along with the Maxtor,
>> booted back into advanced setup and it read again the
old
>> Samsung as the primary and it didn't give me a choice in
>> the matter, either.
>>
>> Anyway that I can modify my BIOS to not read the Samsung
>> as the default any time it's connected, but rather the
new
>> Maxtor? Thanks!
>>
>> Rob
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