Hard/Slave Drive problem

[Guest]

I've recently attached an 80Gb Hard-drive onto my PC as a slave drive and
although everything was working fine to begin with (drive appeared as F
drive) I now find that when booting up my PC that my Master drive is not
getting recognised and system is trying to open my slave drive instead,
which it won't do, as on getting the blue Welcome screen I then get asked to
re-activate my version of Windows (XP Home). On disconnecting my slave drive
my Master drive with XP Pro opens up without any problem although obviously I
no longer have access to my slave drive.

Another problem, and I don't know if this is related, on booting up, the
system informs me that it is booting from CD, even after changing the BIOS to
boot from Floppy i.e. when looking at BIOS settings it informs me that 1st
boot-up device is Floppy when Black screen appears at boot-up it still
outputs 'boot from CD'.

Hope this makes sense.

 

[Sleepless in Seattle]

The jumper setting on the slave may be wrong. Western Digital HDDs have
jumper settings for SINGLE DRIVE, MASTER and SLAVE.

Your slave drive is acting like it is jumpered as SINGLE DRIVE. Change to
SLAVE. Also check the master drive.