Hard drive installation

[Leo]

Currently have an 8 Gig hard drive with two partitions.
I have a new 40 Gig hard drive that I want to replace the
old one with. I removed the 8 gig and installed the 40
gig, formatted and partitioned with the xp software, but
the system will not boot into windows xp from it. I
reinstalled the 8 gig on my primary IDE cabel and set to
master, installed the 40 gig on my secondary IDE cable
set and set to master. I do see the 40 gig in control
panel, formatted NTFS, with windows xp installed and
labeled drive G. How do I get the 40 gig to be my
primary drive, system and active drive so that I do not
have to use the 8 gig hard drive anymore?

 

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

You need to make sure that you have the drive jumpered
correctly and make sure the 40hd is marked Active, then
once that is installed you should be able to connect the old
drive as a slave, make sure that you make your partition
active, beside why partition the drive you really don't need
too

Alvin

 

[johnny]

That's exactly what I'm trying to do! Why is this so
hard now with XP????
Getting frustrated!

 

[Andy]

Currently have an 8 Gig hard drive with two partitions.
I have a new 40 Gig hard drive that I want to replace the
old one with. I removed the 8 gig and installed the 40
gig, formatted and partitioned with the xp software,
but the system will not boot into windows xp from it.

Based on the last line, I assume you did not install Windows XP the
"normal" way, i.e., boot from the XP CD and install onto the new 40G
drive. Otherwise, the system would have had to boot from the 40G hard
drive in order for the installation to succeed.

I
reinstalled the 8 gig on my primary IDE cabel and set to
master, installed the 40 gig on my secondary IDE cable
set and set to master. I do see the 40 gig in control
panel, formatted NTFS, with windows xp installed and
labeled drive G. How do I get the 40 gig to be my
primary drive, system and active drive so that I do not
have to use the 8 gig hard drive anymore?

Install XP in the normal way.