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New Hard drive disk installation
I installed a new WD hard drive disk today hoping to be able to retire my old
one. I set it up as slave and used the installation disk provided to do a full copy of my old HD to the new one. I then tried to remove the old one and install the new one as master but my PC will not boot with the new HD as master. I am using Windows XP but it was installed by the PC manufacturer on the original HDU, so do not have the installation CDs. Anything I can do to turn my new HD as a system disk? |
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If your new WD drive is the only drive on the cable then you are not
supposed to set the jumper to Master; it is supposed to be omittted if there is a single drive on the cable. The computer won't boot if the primary partition on the new drive is not active. Boot with floppy and run FDISK to activate the primary partition. "Monty" wrote in message ... I installed a new WD hard drive disk today hoping to be able to retire my old one. I set it up as slave and used the installation disk provided to do a full copy of my old HD to the new one. I then tried to remove the old one and install the new one as master but my PC will not boot with the new HD as master. I am using Windows XP but it was installed by the PC manufacturer on the original HDU, so do not have the installation CDs. Anything I can do to turn my new HD as a system disk? |
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NO, not all hard drive have to have no jumper taken off for it to be a
master drive. "Jerry" wrote in message ... If your new WD drive is the only drive on the cable then you are not supposed to set the jumper to Master; it is supposed to be omittted if there is a single drive on the cable. The computer won't boot if the primary partition on the new drive is not active. Boot with floppy and run FDISK to activate the primary partition. "Monty" wrote in message ... I installed a new WD hard drive disk today hoping to be able to retire my old one. I set it up as slave and used the installation disk provided to do a full copy of my old HD to the new one. I then tried to remove the old one and install the new one as master but my PC will not boot with the new HD as master. I am using Windows XP but it was installed by the PC manufacturer on the original HDU, so do not have the installation CDs. Anything I can do to turn my new HD as a system disk? |
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Hello Yves,
Western Digital "WD", which is the manufacturer being discussed, have the jumper removed for SINGLE DISK configuration. Yves Leclerc wrote: NO, not all hard drive have to have no jumper taken off for it to be a master drive. "Jerry" wrote in message ... If your new WD drive is the only drive on the cable then you are not supposed to set the jumper to Master; it is supposed to be omittted if there is a single drive on the cable. The computer won't boot if the primary partition on the new drive is not active. Boot with floppy and run FDISK to activate the primary partition. "Monty" wrote in message ... I installed a new WD hard drive disk today hoping to be able to retire my old one. I set it up as slave and used the installation disk provided to do a full copy of my old HD to the new one. I then tried to remove the old one and install the new one as master but my PC will not boot with the new HD as master. I am using Windows XP but it was installed by the PC manufacturer on the original HDU, so do not have the installation CDs. Anything I can do to turn my new HD as a system disk? |
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Yves:
Just to clarify. Jerry is trying to point out that Western Digital has this unique jumper setting (at least I think it's "unique" since I haven't come across another hard drive manufacturer that uses that particular jumper setting) of Single. You use that jumper setting when the HD is the only device on the IDE cable, i.e., no device is connected as Slave. If there are two devices connected to the IDE cable, then you use the Master jumper setting. So it's possible that when the OP connected his WD drive as Master, there was no Slave device connected. And that would result (usually) in the system not recognizing the drive. Jerry's other suggestion about using FDISK "to activate the primary partition" is really not relevant in this situation. Art "Yves Leclerc" wrote in message ... NO, not all hard drive have to have no jumper taken off for it to be a master drive. "Jerry" wrote in message ... If your new WD drive is the only drive on the cable then you are not supposed to set the jumper to Master; it is supposed to be omittted if there is a single drive on the cable. The computer won't boot if the primary partition on the new drive is not active. Boot with floppy and run FDISK to activate the primary partition. "Monty" wrote in message ... I installed a new WD hard drive disk today hoping to be able to retire my old one. I set it up as slave and used the installation disk provided to do a full copy of my old HD to the new one. I then tried to remove the old one and install the new one as master but my PC will not boot with the new HD as master. I am using Windows XP but it was installed by the PC manufacturer on the original HDU, so do not have the installation CDs. Anything I can do to turn my new HD as a system disk? |
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It's a WD drive and yes the jumper would have to be removed. Monty would
have had a jumper from pins 3 to 4 (dual slave), on the jumper block, when he did the copy and then would have had to remove the jumper for it to work as a master alone. "Yves Leclerc" wrote in message ... NO, not all hard drive have to have no jumper taken off for it to be a master drive. "Jerry" wrote in message ... If your new WD drive is the only drive on the cable then you are not supposed to set the jumper to Master; it is supposed to be omittted if there is a single drive on the cable. The computer won't boot if the primary partition on the new drive is not active. Boot with floppy and run FDISK to activate the primary partition. "Monty" wrote in message ... I installed a new WD hard drive disk today hoping to be able to retire my old one. I set it up as slave and used the installation disk provided to do a full copy of my old HD to the new one. I then tried to remove the old one and install the new one as master but my PC will not boot with the new HD as master. I am using Windows XP but it was installed by the PC manufacturer on the original HDU, so do not have the installation CDs. Anything I can do to turn my new HD as a system disk? |
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Thank you all for your responses. I will ensure that my WD is configured ok
as master. I thought I had it but hey, maybe not. I have read a lot of other posts about having to recover Windows XP. Could this be my problem? I did use the manufacturer's CD copy utility to copy from my old disk to the new. I read a lot about using Ghost software instead. Could this be my problem? Should I retry using Ghost software? "BR549" wrote: It's a WD drive and yes the jumper would have to be removed. Monty would have had a jumper from pins 3 to 4 (dual slave), on the jumper block, when he did the copy and then would have had to remove the jumper for it to work as a master alone. "Yves Leclerc" wrote in message ... NO, not all hard drive have to have no jumper taken off for it to be a master drive. "Jerry" wrote in message ... If your new WD drive is the only drive on the cable then you are not supposed to set the jumper to Master; it is supposed to be omittted if there is a single drive on the cable. The computer won't boot if the primary partition on the new drive is not active. Boot with floppy and run FDISK to activate the primary partition. "Monty" wrote in message ... I installed a new WD hard drive disk today hoping to be able to retire my old one. I set it up as slave and used the installation disk provided to do a full copy of my old HD to the new one. I then tried to remove the old one and install the new one as master but my PC will not boot with the new HD as master. I am using Windows XP but it was installed by the PC manufacturer on the original HDU, so do not have the installation CDs. Anything I can do to turn my new HD as a system disk? |
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"Monty" wrote: Thank you all for your responses. I will ensure that my WD is configured ok as master. I thought I had it but hey, maybe not. I have read a lot of other posts about having to recover Windows XP. Could this be my problem? I did use the manufacturer's CD copy utility to copy from my old disk to the new. I read a lot about using Ghost software instead. Could this be my problem? Should I retry using Ghost software? "BR549" wrote: It's a WD drive and yes the jumper would have to be removed. Monty would have had a jumper from pins 3 to 4 (dual slave), on the jumper block, when he did the copy and then would have had to remove the jumper for it to work as a master alone. "Yves Leclerc" wrote in message ... NO, not all hard drive have to have no jumper taken off for it to be a master drive. "Jerry" wrote in message ... If your new WD drive is the only drive on the cable then you are not supposed to set the jumper to Master; it is supposed to be omittted if there is a single drive on the cable. The computer won't boot if the primary partition on the new drive is not active. Boot with floppy and run FDISK to activate the primary partition. "Monty" wrote in message ... I installed a new WD hard drive disk today hoping to be able to retire my old one. I set it up as slave and used the installation disk provided to do a full copy of my old HD to the new one. I then tried to remove the old one and install the new one as master but my PC will not boot with the new HD as master. I am using Windows XP but it was installed by the PC manufacturer on the original HDU, so do not have the installation CDs. Anything I can do to turn my new HD as a system disk? My WD paper work states to set it for single drive use no jumpers as Jerry posted. |
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Hi,
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"Monty" wrote in message ... I installed a new WD hard drive disk today hoping to be able to retire my old one. I set it up as slave and used the installation disk provided to do a full copy of my old HD to the new one. I then tried to remove the old one and install the new one as master but my PC will not boot with the new HD as master. I am using Windows XP but it was installed by the PC manufacturer on the original HDU, so do not have the installation CDs. Anything I can do to turn my new HD as a system disk? It is hard telling what has happened with a crippled OEM version of Windows XP ( which Microsoft does not support). Go to where you made the purchase. |
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