New HDD

[Phil in NH]

OK folks,

I'm a bit of a 'newbie', so please be patient.

My old HDD was 'slowing down' despite Norton Speed Disk on
my 'other', newer PC (KM133A Socket A (AMD Athlon/Duron
CPU's) ATX Base System, 1.4 GHz...266FSB). I'm writing
from an old Gateway 450 MB...

I added a WD 120 GB HDD, formatted and partitioned as NTFS/
MBR, and couldn't get to (drive copy?) NTFS without
converting the old HDD FAT32 to NTFS. I did that, and now
it just 'cycles' through the boot process, while booting
from the new HDD. I CAN get to BIOS setup and change the
boot sequence to the old HDD, but don't want to do too
much, until I know more.

Any suggestions???

Thanks in advance

Phil

 

[Robert Mitchell [MSFT]]

Hello Phil,

Try the following,

1. Remove the old hard drive
2. Change the jumper settings on the new drive to "single"
3. Boot to a Win98 boot disk, run FDISK, and set the first partition as
active
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[Phil in NH]

Robert,

Thanks for the info!

I believe that it is now currently set as 'active'. (also,
MBR). As stated, it's there in BIOS. Man, I'm Not
doubting you, but I'm thinking that I did too much at
once... new HDD, format in NTFS, reformat old HDD into NTFS
from FAT 32, and then try to copy over.

You're saying that FDISK is the answer? Booting from the
floppy into Win 98? No offense, but it sounds too easy....

BTW: Norton Speed Disk ran OK last night on the "new" HDD
(F), but I started it right away again on the "old" (C),
and it's been stuck at 56%, with CPU and Page File at least
"moving" (showing activity) since this AM (7:00?). Yes, I
did do Disk Doc, Win Doc, etc...

I'll try it (FDISK)if you say so...

Newbie (and Trusting) Phil in NH

 

[Phil in NH]

Sorry, Robert,

But that "Norton" thing (that I just replied)is on my newer
HDD, on the upstairs PC (both now NTFS, and Win XP). I'm
getting confused as to which is which. Still the same
thing, down here. Win XP is working OK on new HDD (still
FAT32...that's why we're 'talking' ... , but won't
recognize old HDD from the New one. Changing BIOS to boot
from old HDD into Win 98, causes BOTH to be 'seen'. Had to
'backup and restore' some old info, to get it to show. So
will that FDISK cause everything to be 'erased'???? I
don't want to do that...resumes and stuff, that I'd rather
not redo.

What do you think?

Thanks again,

Phil in NH