Clean install of XP on a second hard drive

[Jay]

hello all,

I installed a new 250 gig drive, with a ATA controller card, into my old
computer. I got the new drive set up ad Disc 1, with 2 partitions for now.

It's set up as the slave to the old drive.

So now I need boot it up and reload XP.

When I move the jumpers to the master position on this new drive, the
computer tries to boot, and gives me a message to the effect that the HDD has
no primary allocation, or something like that (sorry, it was late last night).

What should my next steps be? Can I load XP onto it now as a slave, and
them move it to the master position? I have all my data backed up on the
second partition of this new drive.

Thanks alot, Jay

[Jay]

OK Just tried again.

put new drive in Master Position, no slave hooked up. Put in XP Disc (tried
both, upgrade, and the one that came with another Dell).

Went into Bios and told it to boot from CD Rom.

At startup " syetem disk error, insert disc and press enter"

What next?

"Jay" wrote:

> hello all,
>
> I installed a new 250 gig drive, with a ATA controller card, into my old
> computer. I got the new drive set up ad Disc 1, with 2 partitions for now.
>
> It's set up as the slave to the old drive.
>
> So now I need boot it up and reload XP.
>
> When I move the jumpers to the master position on this new drive, the
> computer tries to boot, and gives me a message to the effect that the HDD has
> no primary allocation, or something like that (sorry, it was late last night).
>
> What should my next steps be? Can I load XP onto it now as a slave, and
> them move it to the master position? I have all my data backed up on the
> second partition of this new drive.
>
> Thanks alot, Jay

[Bill]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 08:50:53 -0700, Jay
> wrote:

>OK Just tried again.
>
>put new drive in Master Position, no slave hooked up. Put in XP Disc (tried
>both, upgrade, and the one that came with another Dell).
>
>Went into Bios and told it to boot from CD Rom.
>
>At startup " syetem disk error, insert disc and press enter"
>
>What next?
>
>"Jay" wrote:
>
>> hello all,
>>
>> I installed a new 250 gig drive, with a ATA controller card, into my old
>> computer. I got the new drive set up ad Disc 1, with 2 partitions for now.
>>
>> It's set up as the slave to the old drive.
>>
>> So now I need boot it up and reload XP.
>>
>> When I move the jumpers to the master position on this new drive, the
>> computer tries to boot, and gives me a message to the effect that the HDD has
>> no primary allocation, or something like that (sorry, it was late last night).
>>
>> What should my next steps be? Can I load XP onto it now as a slave, and
>> them move it to the master position? I have all my data backed up on the
>> second partition of this new drive.
>>
>> Thanks alot, Jay
fdisk? set primary as active?
You didn't say but the new drives come with a start-up disk that
should automagicly set up your new drive. It will also transfer the
existing data from the old to the new drive. Your CD may be bad
if it will not boot properly?
Bill
Atlanta

[Jay]

Hi Bill,

It's a 25o Gig OEM drive, shipped with no software. Both drives are now
running off of the IDE controller card I installed.

I partitioned it into two 20 gig segments, the first as NFTS, the secone as
FAT32, using XP computer management.

The drive is showing up as disk 1 on the running machene, with my origional
8 gig drive as Disc 0 (System).

Do I somehow need to set it up as a primamy drive before I change the
jumper, I'm confused.

Can I just load XP onto it while it's a slave, then switch the drives once
it's done?

Thanks everyone, for all the help.


"Bill" wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 08:50:53 -0700, Jay
> > wrote:
>
> >OK Just tried again.
> >
> >put new drive in Master Position, no slave hooked up. Put in XP Disc (tried
> >both, upgrade, and the one that came with another Dell).
> >
> >Went into Bios and told it to boot from CD Rom.
> >
> >At startup " syetem disk error, insert disc and press enter"
> >
> >What next?
> >
> >"Jay" wrote:
> >
> >> hello all,
> >>
> >> I installed a new 250 gig drive, with a ATA controller card, into my old
> >> computer. I got the new drive set up ad Disc 1, with 2 partitions for now.
> >>
> >> It's set up as the slave to the old drive.
> >>
> >> So now I need boot it up and reload XP.
> >>
> >> When I move the jumpers to the master position on this new drive, the
> >> computer tries to boot, and gives me a message to the effect that the HDD has
> >> no primary allocation, or something like that (sorry, it was late last night).
> >>
> >> What should my next steps be? Can I load XP onto it now as a slave, and
> >> them move it to the master position? I have all my data backed up on the
> >> second partition of this new drive.
> >>
> >> Thanks alot, Jay
> fdisk? set primary as active?
> You didn't say but the new drives come with a start-up disk that
> should automagicly set up your new drive. It will also transfer the
> existing data from the old to the new drive. Your CD may be bad
> if it will not boot properly?
> Bill
> Atlanta
>

[Jay]

Update:

The drive is not active.

If I "activate" it, and move it to the master position, and there wre
problems, will I still be able to boot from the old drive by puting it back
in the master position, or will I be up the creek? If I activate the drive,
it will deactivate the origional, correct?

"Jay" wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> It's a 25o Gig OEM drive, shipped with no software. Both drives are now
> running off of the IDE controller card I installed.
>
> I partitioned it into two 20 gig segments, the first as NFTS, the secone as
> FAT32, using XP computer management.
>
> The drive is showing up as disk 1 on the running machene, with my origional
> 8 gig drive as Disc 0 (System).
>
> Do I somehow need to set it up as a primamy drive before I change the
> jumper, I'm confused.
>
> Can I just load XP onto it while it's a slave, then switch the drives once
> it's done?
>
> Thanks everyone, for all the help.
>
>
> "Bill" wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 08:50:53 -0700, Jay
> > > wrote:
> >
> > >OK Just tried again.
> > >
> > >put new drive in Master Position, no slave hooked up. Put in XP Disc (tried
> > >both, upgrade, and the one that came with another Dell).
> > >
> > >Went into Bios and told it to boot from CD Rom.
> > >
> > >At startup " syetem disk error, insert disc and press enter"
> > >
> > >What next?
> > >
> > >"Jay" wrote:
> > >
> > >> hello all,
> > >>
> > >> I installed a new 250 gig drive, with a ATA controller card, into my old
> > >> computer. I got the new drive set up ad Disc 1, with 2 partitions for now.
> > >>
> > >> It's set up as the slave to the old drive.
> > >>
> > >> So now I need boot it up and reload XP.
> > >>
> > >> When I move the jumpers to the master position on this new drive, the
> > >> computer tries to boot, and gives me a message to the effect that the HDD has
> > >> no primary allocation, or something like that (sorry, it was late last night).
> > >>
> > >> What should my next steps be? Can I load XP onto it now as a slave, and
> > >> them move it to the master position? I have all my data backed up on the
> > >> second partition of this new drive.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks alot, Jay
> > fdisk? set primary as active?
> > You didn't say but the new drives come with a start-up disk that
> > should automagicly set up your new drive. It will also transfer the
> > existing data from the old to the new drive. Your CD may be bad
> > if it will not boot properly?
> > Bill
> > Atlanta
> >

[Jay]

anyone? Please.

"Jay" wrote:

> Update:
>
> The drive is not active.
>
> If I "activate" it, and move it to the master position, and there wre
> problems, will I still be able to boot from the old drive by puting it back
> in the master position, or will I be up the creek? If I activate the drive,
> it will deactivate the origional, correct?
>
> "Jay" wrote:
>
> > Hi Bill,
> >
> > It's a 25o Gig OEM drive, shipped with no software. Both drives are now
> > running off of the IDE controller card I installed.
> >
> > I partitioned it into two 20 gig segments, the first as NFTS, the secone as
> > FAT32, using XP computer management.
> >
> > The drive is showing up as disk 1 on the running machene, with my origional
> > 8 gig drive as Disc 0 (System).
> >
> > Do I somehow need to set it up as a primamy drive before I change the
> > jumper, I'm confused.
> >
> > Can I just load XP onto it while it's a slave, then switch the drives once
> > it's done?
> >
> > Thanks everyone, for all the help.
> >
> >
> > "Bill" wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 08:50:53 -0700, Jay
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >OK Just tried again.
> > > >
> > > >put new drive in Master Position, no slave hooked up. Put in XP Disc (tried
> > > >both, upgrade, and the one that came with another Dell).
> > > >
> > > >Went into Bios and told it to boot from CD Rom.
> > > >
> > > >At startup " syetem disk error, insert disc and press enter"
> > > >
> > > >What next?
> > > >
> > > >"Jay" wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> hello all,
> > > >>
> > > >> I installed a new 250 gig drive, with a ATA controller card, into my old
> > > >> computer. I got the new drive set up ad Disc 1, with 2 partitions for now.
> > > >>
> > > >> It's set up as the slave to the old drive.
> > > >>
> > > >> So now I need boot it up and reload XP.
> > > >>
> > > >> When I move the jumpers to the master position on this new drive, the
> > > >> computer tries to boot, and gives me a message to the effect that the HDD has
> > > >> no primary allocation, or something like that (sorry, it was late last night).
> > > >>
> > > >> What should my next steps be? Can I load XP onto it now as a slave, and
> > > >> them move it to the master position? I have all my data backed up on the
> > > >> second partition of this new drive.
> > > >>
> > > >> Thanks alot, Jay
> > > fdisk? set primary as active?
> > > You didn't say but the new drives come with a start-up disk that
> > > should automagicly set up your new drive. It will also transfer the
> > > existing data from the old to the new drive. Your CD may be bad
> > > if it will not boot properly?
> > > Bill
> > > Atlanta
> > >

[Ron Sommer]

You will not be up a creek.
Activate only affects that drive. It will not change the old drive.
--
Ron Sommer

"Jay" > wrote in message
...
> Update:
>
> The drive is not active.
>
> If I "activate" it, and move it to the master position, and there wre
> problems, will I still be able to boot from the old drive by puting it
> back
> in the master position, or will I be up the creek? If I activate the
> drive,
> it will deactivate the origional, correct?
>
> "Jay" wrote:
>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> It's a 25o Gig OEM drive, shipped with no software. Both drives are now
>> running off of the IDE controller card I installed.
>>
>> I partitioned it into two 20 gig segments, the first as NFTS, the secone
>> as
>> FAT32, using XP computer management.
>>
>> The drive is showing up as disk 1 on the running machene, with my
>> origional
>> 8 gig drive as Disc 0 (System).
>>
>> Do I somehow need to set it up as a primamy drive before I change the
>> jumper, I'm confused.
>>
>> Can I just load XP onto it while it's a slave, then switch the drives
>> once
>> it's done?
>>
>> Thanks everyone, for all the help.
>>
>>
>> "Bill" wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 08:50:53 -0700, Jay
>> > > wrote:
>> >
>> > >OK Just tried again.
>> > >
>> > >put new drive in Master Position, no slave hooked up. Put in XP Disc
>> > >(tried
>> > >both, upgrade, and the one that came with another Dell).
>> > >
>> > >Went into Bios and told it to boot from CD Rom.
>> > >
>> > >At startup " syetem disk error, insert disc and press enter"
>> > >
>> > >What next?
>> > >
>> > >"Jay" wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> hello all,
>> > >>
>> > >> I installed a new 250 gig drive, with a ATA controller card, into my
>> > >> old
>> > >> computer. I got the new drive set up ad Disc 1, with 2 partitions
>> > >> for now.
>> > >>
>> > >> It's set up as the slave to the old drive.
>> > >>
>> > >> So now I need boot it up and reload XP.
>> > >>
>> > >> When I move the jumpers to the master position on this new drive,
>> > >> the
>> > >> computer tries to boot, and gives me a message to the effect that
>> > >> the HDD has
>> > >> no primary allocation, or something like that (sorry, it was late
>> > >> last night).
>> > >>
>> > >> What should my next steps be? Can I load XP onto it now as a slave,
>> > >> and
>> > >> them move it to the master position? I have all my data backed up on
>> > >> the
>> > >> second partition of this new drive.
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks alot, Jay
>> > fdisk? set primary as active?
>> > You didn't say but the new drives come with a start-up disk that
>> > should automagicly set up your new drive. It will also transfer the
>> > existing data from the old to the new drive. Your CD may be bad
>> > if it will not boot properly?
>> > Bill
>> > Atlanta
>> >