You have to set the jumpers on the hard drives, to master for the drive you
wish to boot from, and to slave for the old hard drive.
"Yo Guy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> hello, A while ago I bought the WD HD with Windows XP, and
> installed it used it and everything was fine. I recently
> hooked up this hard drive that I've been using as a slave
> b/c I bought a new computer, and the new computer came
> with a lot of good sofware on it... The other HD is the WD
> 80gb with the 8mb cache, with higher rpm's then the one
> that came with the computer thats why I wanna switch
> now... Now when I try to use the WD HD by itself, or with
> the other one that came with the computer as a slave, it
> doesn't boot up. It always goes to the screen "Your
> computer did not correctly do stuff, choose one of these
> settings...then you get safe mode all that...NONE OF THEM
> WORK...you pick any of em then after a few secs it
> restarts and the whole thing starts over...I hit F8 and
> all that, and I tryed all of the choices they gave me, it
> just restarts after...I am positive I have everything
> hooked up right with the right settings on the HD (Master
> No Slave Present) or (master slave present) when I have
> the other hookes up with it - please someone help me with
> this one!
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