Problem installing new hard drive

[Kevin J. Nielsen]

I just put a new hard drive in my computer and ran fdisk. The new hard
drive is set as the slave but it shows up as disk #1 in fdisk and I cannot
make an extended dos partition it only allows me to make a primary dos
partition but when I do that it makes it the c: drive and my boot hard drive
becomes the d: drive.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup

Thank You

Kevin

 

[Guest]

Kevin, You say you ran fdisk but do you mean ran the actual disk utility for
that particular HD? If not, I suggest you go to the HD manufacture site and
find the utility disk download for your particular HD and burn it to CD. When
you boot with the CD utility disk you made it will prompt you for
instructions. Format the disk out to read all zero's (full erase not quick).
Once completed, you can then partition it. It should now be found on startup.
In the meantime, go to your Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative
Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management and on the right side you can
see what all your drives status and assigned letters are in system but DO NOT
try to change them here. If they are still wrong, then quite possibly the
jumper on your primary hard drive is on cable select or slave. If these
drives are daisy chained on the same connection cable this may also be the
problem. Good luck.

GMK

 

[John John]

Are your drives SATA or EIDE? The drive is connected at the wrong
location or, in the case of EIDE the Master/Slave relationship is wrong,
the jumpers are not right. Why are you using fdisk to do the
partitioning? You can do all of that much easier with the Windows XP
Disk Management Tool.

How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000/

John

 

[Ron Sommer]

Why are you using fdisk?
What size are the drives?
The master will be disk #0.
It is becoming C because it is active.
Make your old drive active.
--
Ron Sommer

:I just put a new hard drive in my computer and ran fdisk. The new hard
: drive is set as the slave but it shows up as disk #1 in fdisk and I cannot
: make an extended dos partition it only allows me to make a primary dos
: partition but when I do that it makes it the c: drive and my boot hard
drive
: becomes the d: drive.
:
: Anyone know how to fix this?
:
: Sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup
:
: Thank You
:
: Kevin
:
:

 

[Kevin J. Nielsen]

My old drive is active. If I try to re make it active it says " only
partitions on drive 1 can be made active"
The master is my old drive but it shows up as drive 2
???

Thanks

Kevin

 

[Jonny]

Tell us about jumpering used on both hard drives, and where the hard drives
are on the ide ribbon cable. You can run into problem if the former drive
is WD and is jumpered master/alone as one example. Placing a slave on the
end of the ide ribbon cable is another.

 

[Kevin J. Nielsen]

I have the old drive set as master, connected to the end of the ribbon, the
new one is set as slave connected to the second position on the ribbon.

I tried low level format and format/u. nothing worked, it still shows as hd
1 no matter what. I finally created a primary dos partition and made sure
it was not set to active. Now I was able to boot to windows with my c:
drive remaining the c: drive. After I booted to windows, it showed as
drive 2 so I deleted the primary dos partition and made it an extended
partition. Everything good now.

Thanks

Kevin

 

[P. Johnson]

Please don't quote backwards.
http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting

Are your drives SATA or EIDE? The drive is connected at the wrong
location or, in the case of EIDE the Master/Slave relationship is wrong,
the jumpers are not right.

Mr. Nielsen mentioned that the drive is set to slave, so that automatically
eliminates RLL, SATA and SCSI since none of those systems have a
master/slave concept.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RLL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI

 

[John John]

Please don't quote backwards.
http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting

Will you please buzz off with your top/bottom posting! None of the
regulars in these groups need any lessons on the subject. Do as you
please and leave the others alone!

John

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Will you please buzz off with your top/bottom posting! None of the
regulars in these groups need any lessons on the subject. Do as you
please and leave the others alone!

Ditto! It convinces nobody to change, is a constant annoyance, and is
nothing but a waste of bandwidth and everyone's time.

Even though I'm personally in complete agreement with his point of view, I
don't feel the need to tell everyone else what to do.

 

[P. Johnson]

Will you please buzz off with your top/bottom posting! None of the
regulars in these groups need any lessons on the subject. Do as you
please and leave the others alone!

If I mentioned it about one of your posts, then you could probably use the
advice. If you can't deal with that, tough luck, leave.