Access to my slave drive

[Guest]

On my very old PC I had a 20GB Seagate hard drive, which I upgraded from
Win98 to WinXP Profesional. The upgrade went well. The hard drive was
partitioned into two 10GB sections because the motherboard would not allow
the entire the entire 20GB to be formatted (that's what the engineer said).

I recently bought another computer, newer than the old PC which also
contained a Seagate 15GB hard drive running Win98SE. I also upgraded this
drive to WinXp professional, which went well.

Becasue all my data is on the 20GB drive, I swapped out the 15GB drive with
my 20GB drive, but it was not recognised on boot up. I then re-installed the
15GB drive that came with the computer and attached my 20GB drive as a slave
ensuring I made the correct jumper settings, but it's not being found by the
system.

I feel that it's a bit more than just hoping XP will find the new hardware
if it's not there on boot up. If I need to enter into the system BIOS to let
the system know there is a slave drive, how do I do this? Is there a
step-by-step tutorial I can follow that will point me in the right direction?

Any help/suggestions would be greatly appareciated.

Thanks very much.

Digeratia.

 

[DL]

The 'new' hd, containing the o/s as the boot disk will not be recognised -
by that I mean the winxp install will not be recognised as it is specific to
the hw it was installed on.
Use the new pc, with yr current winxp o/s, install old hd as slave.
When you boot up you may see notification of the hd's in the boot sequence.
Use disk management to check whether new disk is seen, it may be that you
need to assign a drive letter.
If not seen in disk management, reboot yr sys and enter the bios; often by
pressing DEL during the boot process. Check that new disk is detected

 

[Guest]

Success. Thanks very much.

I can see my old 20GB hard drive with all my data. I tried to get the
computer to boot up off my 20GB hard drive by making it the primary drive and
adjusting the jumper settings, but it's not being recognised by the software.
It gets to the boot up screen asking me to chose the last known good
configuration and then no further. I suspect I will have to copy everything,
including all my email settings etc to the smaller boot up drive.

How do I copy the data from the old hard drive to the new one, so that on
boot up everything appears as it was befoe the upgrade?

Why won't the computer boot up off my old HD?

 

[DL]

The win installation to the hd is specific to the pc it was set up on. When
you move the win o/s hd to a new pc the sys will not boot because win doesnt
recognise the hardware.
You have to undertake a repair installation of win, using the win cd, in
order that the new sys is recognised.

You can copy, using IE, any data to any hd. You cannot however move
applications, these will have to be reinstalled. Any Apps you wish to leave
on the 'old' now slave hd, will have to be reinstalled. Use custom install
method to ensure that they are reinstalled over the origonal install. You
have to do this as apps alter/add settings to the win registry. Your new win
install cannot 'see' these untill they are reinstalled.

 

[Guest]

And I thought it was going so well. After being able to see all my HD's, now
I cannot see my removable drives, i.e.the CD-ROM drive.

When I assigned the drive letters to the partitioned 20GB drive, I was
prompted to restart windows for the changes to take effect.

Before restarting I saw my C; D (CD-ROM); E; and F;

Now I can see my HD's but no CD-ROM drive. I entered set up and used the
automatic hard drive detection option to set up the drives, but it's not
seeing the CD drive.

I was about to re-install the software to the drive that came with the new
machine, but I am not getting very far because I cannot read the applications
from the CD.

What do I do next?

 

[DL]

You should have left the drive letters as they were, I'm assuming E & F were
the slave and its two partitions.
In Hardware, delete the CD Rom, and reboot pc.
If that doesn't work; shutdown, disconnect slave drive (pwr or ide cable)
reboot. The cd should be found.
Shutdown, reconnect slave and reboot.
As you origonally had a single hd, functioning sys, D will be the cd, any
slave drives installed will start from E

 

[Guest]

I didn't do anything with assigning the drive letters. When XP found the
slave drive which is partitioned, it assigned them E and F respectively, as
A, C, D (CD-ROM) were already assigned. I was prompted to restart and then
after that the CD disappeared.

What I've done so far:

Unplug the slave drive (E,F).
RESTART
Enter set up and did the automatic HD detection. Set up did not find the
CD-ROM
Cotinued with the restart, went to disk management and did a search for new
hardware. No CD-ROM found

Shut down. Unplugged the CD-ROM (power and cable)
Slave drive unplugged
Restart. Did not enter set up.
Went to Disk manager and searched for new hardware CD-ROM not found.

Shut down. Reconnected CD-ROM drive, not slave.
Re-start and entered setup. Did HD automatic detection. The CD-ROM was not
detected.

I am thinking back to what I could have done to make the CD-ROM not be
detected and I don't think I deliberatly did anything to cause it not to be
detected.

What needs to be done next?

 

[Bob I]

Suspect in Device manager you need to "View", "Show Hidden" to see the
CD-ROM. Also suggest the HD be made the Primary and CD-rom be Slave.

 

[Guest]

The "show hidden" in Device Manager did not reveal the CD-ROM. I've tried to
install hardware using the Add Hardware wizard, but windows did not detect
that the CD-ROM is present or give it as an option to install when I list
"Show all devices". Even when I go to setup on boot up, Windows will only see
the A, C and the slave drive which is partitioned E & F. I dont know what
next to try. I think this may be beyond my limited trouble shooting
knowledge. What would you suggest as a next step that I can follow?

 

[Bob I]

This sounds like you have a Hardware issue, as in the hardware is not
correctly connected. The cables need to be correctly connected. Power
and Data. The drive Jumpers need to be correctly set as to whether
Master or slave. And the IDE connector must be enabled in BIOS. And the
drive must not be broken. Any of the forgoing items will render the
Operating system unable to see the drive.

 

[Guest]

I have somewhat if the same problem, except I copied from one drive to the
other. When I removed the old drive, I can't seem how to figure out how to
reorganize the drive letters (A, C, D, & E instead of A, C, F & G)

 

[Dave]

Try right clicking on My Computer, select disk management, Select Action
(pull down menu)/All Tasks/Change Drive Letter and Paths. It'll then let
you change the drive letter for the selected drive.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Dave. I tried to do the same thing for the CDROM as well but not
having any luck...any suggestions?

 

[Dave]

What are you getting when you try?

Thanks Dave. I tried to do the same thing for the CDROM as well but not
having any luck...any suggestions?

 

[mark lemon]

When you first boot the machine, look at the screen and see which keys you
need to press to enter Setup. This varies and could be the delete key, F1
key, F2 key or a combination of keys such as Ctrl+Esc. Once you find out
which key to press, reboot and start tapping on that key. You will enter
the Setup routine.
Within this routine, find the IDE device setup or Hard Drive setup, or there
could be a utility to Detect IDE, or AutoDetect IDE. You should have
Primary and Secondary Drives listed. Each of those will have a master and
slave under them. If you connected both of your drives to the same cable,
both drives will be listed under the Primary Drives section. Look for Auto
or Auto detect and select that. This will detect the slave drive. Once it
is detected, it should show up in the Setup program. Next, select Save and
Exit. The machine will reboot and should recognize the slave drive.
This has to be done before the drive will show up in My Computer.
mark