2nd hard drive

[george]

i install a second hard drive that i had in a my other computer. when i
start up i get a screen telling me to hit F1 to continue or F2 to run setup.
i try both and i cant do anything. i cant get into the bios to do anything, i
have phx. bios. its aloso telling that the 2nd hard disk not found. the only
what i can get started it keep hitting all of the F keys until i hear a beep
and then hit F6. then the computer will start up. i have gone in and check
the device manage and everything seems to be ok. it has the 2nd hd there and
it says its working ok.can anybody helllllp me. thanks

[Tony]

"george" > wrote in message
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>i install a second hard drive that i had in a my other computer. when i
> start up i get a screen telling me to hit F1 to continue or F2 to run
> setup.
> i try both and i cant do anything. i cant get into the bios to do
> anything, i
> have phx. bios. its aloso telling that the 2nd hard disk not found. the
> only
> what i can get started it keep hitting all of the F keys until i hear a
> beep
> and then hit F6. then the computer will start up. i have gone in and check
> the device manage and everything seems to be ok. it has the 2nd hd there
> and
> it says its working ok.can anybody helllllp me. thanks
>
Did you remember to change the jumper on the hard drive to make it slave?
The original hard drive might also need to have a jumper changed to make it
master with slave.

[Plato]

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> i install a second hard drive that i had in a my other computer. when i

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[jazzcat]

you have a configuration problem,,,you mentioned having the new drive on
the same cable with your main HD. Is the main HD set as master? if so (
and it should be so) set the 2nd drive as a slave. That should take care
of our problem, Oh yeah,, I gathered you are using the XP OS, make a
setof startup disks... you may have a small problem at first and need to
run the recovery console in whch case usint the "fixboot" command will
prolly set ya straight/

in the future you may also want to look at this site
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/default.mspx a great resource for all
MS problems
george:
> i install a second hard drive that i had in a my other computer. when
i
> start up i get a screen telling me to hit F1 to continue or F2 to run
setup.
> i try both and i cant do anything. i cant get into the bios to do
anything, i
> have phx. bios. its aloso telling that the 2nd hard disk not found.
the only
> what i can get started it keep hitting all of the F keys until i hear
a beep
> and then hit F6. then the computer will start up. i have gone in and
check
> the device manage and everything seems to be ok. it has the 2nd hd
there and
> it says its working ok.can anybody helllllp me. thanks