Master & Slave Hard Drive Question

Have you switched the jumpers on both hard drives,the
installed hd,needs to be set to master,the old slave.
Go to the mfg. web site and get the info.,however the
pins(jumpers)should have the settings engraved in the
housing,above the pins,move the plastic piece to the
needed setting.
>-----Original Message-----
>I would like to install my old hard drive and transfer
>the data over to my new hard drive. My new computer uses
>XP, the old one Millenium. There is an expansion slot
>for an additional hard drive in my tower. When I hook up
>the old drive, the system doesn't boot. What am I
>forgetting or missing here?
>.
>

Also,
Is your bios set to auto identify the drive type and has it found it
correctly.

Paul Riemerman

"Andrew E." <eckrichco@msn.com> wrote in message
news:037601c34433$3c022420$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Have you switched the jumpers on both hard drives,the
> installed hd,needs to be set to master,the old slave.
> Go to the mfg. web site and get the info.,however the
> pins(jumpers)should have the settings engraved in the
> housing,above the pins,move the plastic piece to the
> needed setting.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I would like to install my old hard drive and transfer
> >the data over to my new hard drive. My new computer uses
> >XP, the old one Millenium. There is an expansion slot
> >for an additional hard drive in my tower. When I hook up
> >the old drive, the system doesn't boot. What am I
> >forgetting or missing here?
> >.
> >

Thanks, I'll give it a try
>-----Original Message-----
> Have you switched the jumpers on both hard drives,the
> installed hd,needs to be set to master,the old slave.
> Go to the mfg. web site and get the info.,however the
> pins(jumpers)should have the settings engraved in the
> housing,above the pins,move the plastic piece to the
> needed setting.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I would like to install my old hard drive and transfer
>>the data over to my new hard drive. My new computer
uses
>>XP, the old one Millenium. There is an expansion slot
>>for an additional hard drive in my tower. When I hook
up
>>the old drive, the system doesn't boot. What am I
>>forgetting or missing here?
>>.
>>
>.
>

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:55:33 -0700, "Andrew E." <eckrichco@msn.com>
wrote:

>ve you switched the jumpers on both hard drives,the
> installed hd,needs to be set to master,the old slave.
> Go to the mfg. web site and get the info.,however the
> pins(jumpers)should have the settings engraved in the
> housing,above the pins,move the plastic piece to the
> needed setting.

Perhaps, more importantly, if you've set the new HD as master and the
old HD (with XP) as slave, have you put any sort of OS on the new HD?
Your system will boot to the primary drive on the primary IDE channel.
You can change this, but personally I've never seen a BIOS that will
let me boot to another HD device on either channel - it's floppy, CD,
or HD (the primary master). That could be your problem here.

New HDs often come with software that allows you to transfer the
contents of the old drive to the new one. It should be on a floppy
(or maybe a CD). Set your BIOS to boot accordingly, restart, and
follow the on-screen prompts. That should accomplish what you are
looking to do.

Just a note to NobodyMan. The newer versions of Award
Bios (ver. 2.7 or newer) will allow you to boot from any
drive, master or slave, on either IDE channel. Assuming
they are Hard disks, with some sort of operating system
on them. I still have a second hard drive with Windows
98SE on it that my XP system on the primary drive can't
see because of some glitch. When I need to, I configure
the bios to boot from the slave drive (d), and Windows 98
starts just fine. The bios offers the choice to boot from
drive 0, 1, 2, or 3. And has a feature to boot from an
outside source, such as an external drive attached to a
port.
>-----Original Message-----
>On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:55:33 -0700, "Andrew E."
<eckrichco@msn.com>
>wrote:
>
>>ve you switched the jumpers on both hard drives,the
>> installed hd,needs to be set to master,the old slave.
>> Go to the mfg. web site and get the info.,however the
>> pins(jumpers)should have the settings engraved in the
>> housing,above the pins,move the plastic piece to the
>> needed setting.
>
>Perhaps, more importantly, if you've set the new HD as
master and the
>old HD (with XP) as slave, have you put any sort of OS
on the new HD?
>Your system will boot to the primary drive on the
primary IDE channel.
>You can change this, but personally I've never seen a
BIOS that will
>let me boot to another HD device on either channel -
it's floppy, CD,
>or HD (the primary master). That could be your problem
here.
>
>New HDs often come with software that allows you to
transfer the
>contents of the old drive to the new one. It should be
on a floppy
>(or maybe a CD). Set your BIOS to boot accordingly,
restart, and
>follow the on-screen prompts. That should accomplish
what you are
>looking to do.
>
>.
>

"NobodyMan" <none@none.net> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:53:37 -0700, "Tony" <AFZan@aol.com> wrote:
>
> >Just a note to NobodyMan. The newer versions of Award
> >Bios (ver. 2.7 or newer) will allow you to boot from any
> >drive, master or slave, on either IDE channel. Assuming
> >they are Hard disks, with some sort of operating system
> >on them. I still have a second hard drive with Windows
> >98SE on it that my XP system on the primary drive can't
> >see because of some glitch. When I need to, I configure
> >the bios to boot from the slave drive (d), and Windows 98
> >starts just fine. The bios offers the choice to boot from
> >drive 0, 1, 2, or 3. And has a feature to boot from an
> >outside source, such as an external drive attached to a
> >port.
>
> Hey, that's cool. It's about time that this type of thing was
> implemented, giving you much better control over your system.
>
> Thanks for the info!
>

One of my boards has been able to this since 1997 so it is not really that new.

Paul