Mysterious bootup

[Guest]

Hello. Following a HDD upgrade, I configured the neww HDD as a master and the
old one as slave. I want to remove data files off the old one. The slave
still has a horribly infected XP pro install on it. When I powered up after
making the changes, the slave booted up, even though the bootorder is HDD1,
CDROM. No third device. Double checked the jumpers and position sequence on
the ribbon cable. Has anyone heard of this? TIA. Regards, Harry.

 

[Guest]

If there's nothing to boot on the master, the bios could automaticaly boot
the only available disk. Also did you reconfigure the disks setup, not the
boot order, the disks setup in bios after the change? It could be that the
old disk is still marked as master. This is all pretty far fetched advice, i
hope someone comes up with something better.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your post. I did re config. the disk setup. I did a clean istall
on the new one and it runs like a whistle when i remove the jumper and take
the old one out of the que. But when I put the old one back in as a slave,
the PC boots up to the slave. I've not tried to access them both while booted
up. I've accessed them seperately, unplugging the system, making necessary
chnges, then reconnecting the power each time. I've never seen anything like
this.

 

[Glen]

master is HDD0, slave is HDD1

Thanks for your post. I did re config. the disk setup. I did a clean
istall
on the new one and it runs like a whistle when i remove the jumper and
take
the old one out of the que. But when I put the old one back in as a slave,
the PC boots up to the slave. I've not tried to access them both while
booted
up. I've accessed them seperately, unplugging the system, making necessary
chnges, then reconnecting the power each time. I've never seen anything
like
this.

 

[Guest]

Thank you, Glen. I do believe that is the error of my ways. I'll check it out
in the a.m. and post back. Thanks again. Harry.