switching master/slave hard drive problem - please help

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Hi there,

I recently purchased a second hard drive for my PC for
video editing purposes. My original HDD is a 7200rpm
Seagate 40gig running XP Pro and the new one is the same
but an 80gig drive.

I originally had the 80gig drive set-up as a slave for
extra storage but decided to install a second copy of
Windows XP Pro on that drive and slowly set it up with
the intention to eventually ditch the original drive and
sell it.

The second drive works fine as a slave and it runs its
own operating system with no problems. However, if I try
to take out my original hard drive and have just my new
one as a master (now set-up as the master, of course,
with jumper settings all correct), I get a dos-style
error message saying 'Error loading OS' and no Windows
for me.

Can anybody help me with this problem? Please help.

Thanks in advance,

Matt

[Thomas Wendell]

Both drives were on your system while installing XP to the slave? If so, the
installation wrote the OS loaders to the master drives 1dt partition, so
they are not present on the slave, therefore no boot from it. If booting
when small drive is presentand master, it finds those 3 ( or was it 4?) and
boots with no problem....
The files are ntloader , ntdetect.com and boot.ini (and probably, though it
doesn't matter at boot, pagefile.sys)...
To fix problem, remove smaller drive, jumper bigger as master, boot from XP
CD, choose repair when 1st possible, at "command"prompt type fixboot .


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> Hi there,
>
> I recently purchased a second hard drive for my PC for
> video editing purposes. My original HDD is a 7200rpm
> Seagate 40gig running XP Pro and the new one is the same
> but an 80gig drive.
>
> I originally had the 80gig drive set-up as a slave for
> extra storage but decided to install a second copy of
> Windows XP Pro on that drive and slowly set it up with
> the intention to eventually ditch the original drive and
> sell it.
>
> The second drive works fine as a slave and it runs its
> own operating system with no problems. However, if I try
> to take out my original hard drive and have just my new
> one as a master (now set-up as the master, of course,
> with jumper settings all correct), I get a dos-style
> error message saying 'Error loading OS' and no Windows
> for me.
>
> Can anybody help me with this problem? Please help.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Matt