SATA Drive

[Guest]

I have a dell dimension xps gen2 pc, and had orginally a 100 GB sata hard
drive installed on sata0 with XP Pro. All I wanted to do was install a second
sata drive on sata1 as a slave drive and use it for backup. When I plugged it
in and turned it on, everything went fine. I had to go to computer management
to initialize and format the new drive, but it worked fine. However, when I
shut the pc down and tried to restart, I get past the dell start up, and then
just a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left corner. I tried
unplugging the new drive, and even updating the bios, but nothing worked.
There are no jumpers on either drive, and I have read that sata drives dont
need them. Also, I have RAID turned off, and both drives are turned on in
bios. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Ted Zieglar]

"However, when I shut the pc down and tried to restart..."

Did you install the new drive while your computer was still running?

 

[Guest]

no, i had it completely shut down and unplugged.

"However, when I shut the pc down and tried to restart..."

Did you install the new drive while your computer was still running?

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Phew...I was hoping you would say that!

Could you have accidentally dislodged either the power cable or the data
cable? Happens to the best of us. (And I am certainly not in that category.)