Hi, Boba: Didn't have to mess with the jumpers on the HD, since I just
removed it from my old pc and it was used as a slave. I don't understand
your question about the DVD/s jumpers. Thanks for the help! You're only
one of two so far willing to help me and I've published the question on four
Newsgroups. Guess people have their minds set on Xmas, not hardware.
Is it Christmas time already? ;-)
When the system posts, or if the Compaq logo blocks the
details you may have to press some button or enter the bios
menu, you should see the old drive detected by the system.
Unless it looks like something is reported wrong the
settings for the drive should be left on "Auto" or similar.
The curious part is from what you wrote, it seems as though
the drive is being detected by the bios and showing up in
windows, else you'd not be able to see the almost empty
directory and the diagnostics should've shown a problem.
You might describe how you have these logically set up,
where the old WD drive is plugged in. If it is sharing a
cable with something else, you might try temporarily keeping
it alone on the (end of the) cable and jumpering it to
Single, not Master IF a single jumper setting is present.
Since the drive is so old and potentially unreliable due to
it's age, I am wondering if you only want or need to get the
data off instead of continue using this drive.
Do you need to keep using this old drive in the new system?
There are other ways to transfer a few files if you don't,
for example putting it back in the old system and networking
the two, or since a 10GB drive inherantly can't hold so many
gigs of data, perhaps burning a CDR or moving the data over
a USB flash drive.
