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Access to my slave drive
On my very old PC I had a 20GB Seagate hard drive, which I upgraded from
Win98 to WinXP Profesional. The upgrade went well. The hard drive was partitioned into two 10GB sections because the motherboard would not allow the entire the entire 20GB to be formatted (that's what the engineer said). I recently bought another computer, newer than the old PC which also contained a Seagate 15GB hard drive running Win98SE. I also upgraded this drive to WinXp professional, which went well. Becasue all my data is on the 20GB drive, I swapped out the 15GB drive with my 20GB drive, but it was not recognised on boot up. I then re-installed the 15GB drive that came with the computer and attached my 20GB drive as a slave ensuring I made the correct jumper settings, but it's not being found by the system. I feel that it's a bit more than just hoping XP will find the new hardware if it's not there on boot up. If I need to enter into the system BIOS to let the system know there is a slave drive, how do I do this? Is there a step-by-step tutorial I can follow that will point me in the right direction? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appareciated. Thanks very much. Digeratia. |
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Access to my slave drive
The 'new' hd, containing the o/s as the boot disk will not be recognised -
by that I mean the winxp install will not be recognised as it is specific to the hw it was installed on. Use the new pc, with yr current winxp o/s, install old hd as slave. When you boot up you may see notification of the hd's in the boot sequence. Use disk management to check whether new disk is seen, it may be that you need to assign a drive letter. If not seen in disk management, reboot yr sys and enter the bios; often by pressing DEL during the boot process. Check that new disk is detected "Digeratia" wrote in message ... On my very old PC I had a 20GB Seagate hard drive, which I upgraded from Win98 to WinXP Profesional. The upgrade went well. The hard drive was partitioned into two 10GB sections because the motherboard would not allow the entire the entire 20GB to be formatted (that's what the engineer said). I recently bought another computer, newer than the old PC which also contained a Seagate 15GB hard drive running Win98SE. I also upgraded this drive to WinXp professional, which went well. Becasue all my data is on the 20GB drive, I swapped out the 15GB drive with my 20GB drive, but it was not recognised on boot up. I then re-installed the 15GB drive that came with the computer and attached my 20GB drive as a slave ensuring I made the correct jumper settings, but it's not being found by the system. I feel that it's a bit more than just hoping XP will find the new hardware if it's not there on boot up. If I need to enter into the system BIOS to let the system know there is a slave drive, how do I do this? Is there a step-by-step tutorial I can follow that will point me in the right direction? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appareciated. Thanks very much. Digeratia. |
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Success. Thanks very much.
I can see my old 20GB hard drive with all my data. I tried to get the computer to boot up off my 20GB hard drive by making it the primary drive and adjusting the jumper settings, but it's not being recognised by the software. It gets to the boot up screen asking me to chose the last known good configuration and then no further. I suspect I will have to copy everything, including all my email settings etc to the smaller boot up drive. How do I copy the data from the old hard drive to the new one, so that on boot up everything appears as it was befoe the upgrade? Why won't the computer boot up off my old HD? "DL" wrote: The 'new' hd, containing the o/s as the boot disk will not be recognised - by that I mean the winxp install will not be recognised as it is specific to the hw it was installed on. Use the new pc, with yr current winxp o/s, install old hd as slave. When you boot up you may see notification of the hd's in the boot sequence. Use disk management to check whether new disk is seen, it may be that you need to assign a drive letter. If not seen in disk management, reboot yr sys and enter the bios; often by pressing DEL during the boot process. Check that new disk is detected "Digeratia" wrote in message ... On my very old PC I had a 20GB Seagate hard drive, which I upgraded from Win98 to WinXP Profesional. The upgrade went well. The hard drive was partitioned into two 10GB sections because the motherboard would not allow the entire the entire 20GB to be formatted (that's what the engineer said). I recently bought another computer, newer than the old PC which also contained a Seagate 15GB hard drive running Win98SE. I also upgraded this drive to WinXp professional, which went well. Becasue all my data is on the 20GB drive, I swapped out the 15GB drive with my 20GB drive, but it was not recognised on boot up. I then re-installed the 15GB drive that came with the computer and attached my 20GB drive as a slave ensuring I made the correct jumper settings, but it's not being found by the system. I feel that it's a bit more than just hoping XP will find the new hardware if it's not there on boot up. If I need to enter into the system BIOS to let the system know there is a slave drive, how do I do this? Is there a step-by-step tutorial I can follow that will point me in the right direction? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appareciated. Thanks very much. Digeratia. |
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The win installation to the hd is specific to the pc it was set up on. When
you move the win o/s hd to a new pc the sys will not boot because win doesnt recognise the hardware. You have to undertake a repair installation of win, using the win cd, in order that the new sys is recognised. You can copy, using IE, any data to any hd. You cannot however move applications, these will have to be reinstalled. Any Apps you wish to leave on the 'old' now slave hd, will have to be reinstalled. Use custom install method to ensure that they are reinstalled over the origonal install. You have to do this as apps alter/add settings to the win registry. Your new win install cannot 'see' these untill they are reinstalled. "digeratia" wrote in message ... Success. Thanks very much. I can see my old 20GB hard drive with all my data. I tried to get the computer to boot up off my 20GB hard drive by making it the primary drive and adjusting the jumper settings, but it's not being recognised by the software. It gets to the boot up screen asking me to chose the last known good configuration and then no further. I suspect I will have to copy everything, including all my email settings etc to the smaller boot up drive. How do I copy the data from the old hard drive to the new one, so that on boot up everything appears as it was befoe the upgrade? Why won't the computer boot up off my old HD? "DL" wrote: The 'new' hd, containing the o/s as the boot disk will not be recognised - by that I mean the winxp install will not be recognised as it is specific to the hw it was installed on. Use the new pc, with yr current winxp o/s, install old hd as slave. When you boot up you may see notification of the hd's in the boot sequence. Use disk management to check whether new disk is seen, it may be that you need to assign a drive letter. If not seen in disk management, reboot yr sys and enter the bios; often by pressing DEL during the boot process. Check that new disk is detected "Digeratia" wrote in message ... On my very old PC I had a 20GB Seagate hard drive, which I upgraded from Win98 to WinXP Profesional. The upgrade went well. The hard drive was partitioned into two 10GB sections because the motherboard would not allow the entire the entire 20GB to be formatted (that's what the engineer said). I recently bought another computer, newer than the old PC which also contained a Seagate 15GB hard drive running Win98SE. I also upgraded this drive to WinXp professional, which went well. Becasue all my data is on the 20GB drive, I swapped out the 15GB drive with my 20GB drive, but it was not recognised on boot up. I then re-installed the 15GB drive that came with the computer and attached my 20GB drive as a slave ensuring I made the correct jumper settings, but it's not being found by the system. I feel that it's a bit more than just hoping XP will find the new hardware if it's not there on boot up. If I need to enter into the system BIOS to let the system know there is a slave drive, how do I do this? Is there a step-by-step tutorial I can follow that will point me in the right direction? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appareciated. Thanks very much. Digeratia. |
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And I thought it was going so well. After being able to see all my HD's, now
I cannot see my removable drives, i.e.the CD-ROM drive. When I assigned the drive letters to the partitioned 20GB drive, I was prompted to restart windows for the changes to take effect. Before restarting I saw my C; D (CD-ROM); E; and F; Now I can see my HD's but no CD-ROM drive. I entered set up and used the automatic hard drive detection option to set up the drives, but it's not seeing the CD drive. I was about to re-install the software to the drive that came with the new machine, but I am not getting very far because I cannot read the applications from the CD. What do I do next? "DL" wrote: The win installation to the hd is specific to the pc it was set up on. When you move the win o/s hd to a new pc the sys will not boot because win doesnt recognise the hardware. You have to undertake a repair installation of win, using the win cd, in order that the new sys is recognised. You can copy, using IE, any data to any hd. You cannot however move applications, these will have to be reinstalled. Any Apps you wish to leave on the 'old' now slave hd, will have to be reinstalled. Use custom install method to ensure that they are reinstalled over the origonal install. You have to do this as apps alter/add settings to the win registry. Your new win install cannot 'see' these untill they are reinstalled. "digeratia" wrote in message ... Success. Thanks very much. I can see my old 20GB hard drive with all my data. I tried to get the computer to boot up off my 20GB hard drive by making it the primary drive and adjusting the jumper settings, but it's not being recognised by the software. It gets to the boot up screen asking me to chose the last known good configuration and then no further. I suspect I will have to copy everything, including all my email settings etc to the smaller boot up drive. How do I copy the data from the old hard drive to the new one, so that on boot up everything appears as it was befoe the upgrade? Why won't the computer boot up off my old HD? "DL" wrote: The 'new' hd, containing the o/s as the boot disk will not be recognised - by that I mean the winxp install will not be recognised as it is specific to the hw it was installed on. Use the new pc, with yr current winxp o/s, install old hd as slave. When you boot up you may see notification of the hd's in the boot sequence. Use disk management to check whether new disk is seen, it may be that you need to assign a drive letter. If not seen in disk management, reboot yr sys and enter the bios; often by pressing DEL during the boot process. Check that new disk is detected "Digeratia" wrote in message ... On my very old PC I had a 20GB Seagate hard drive, which I upgraded from Win98 to WinXP Profesional. The upgrade went well. The hard drive was partitioned into two 10GB sections because the motherboard would not allow the entire the entire 20GB to be formatted (that's what the engineer said). I recently bought another computer, newer than the old PC which also contained a Seagate 15GB hard drive running Win98SE. I also upgraded this drive to WinXp professional, which went well. Becasue all my data is on the 20GB drive, I swapped out the 15GB drive with my 20GB drive, but it was not recognised on boot up. I then re-installed the 15GB drive that came with the computer and attached my 20GB drive as a slave ensuring I made the correct jumper settings, but it's not being found by the system. I feel that it's a bit more than just hoping XP will find the new hardware if it's not there on boot up. If I need to enter into the system BIOS to let the system know there is a slave drive, how do I do this? Is there a step-by-step tutorial I can follow that will point me in the right direction? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appareciated. Thanks very much. Digeratia. |
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Access to my slave drive
You should have left the drive letters as they were, I'm assuming E & F were
the slave and its two partitions. In Hardware, delete the CD Rom, and reboot pc. If that doesn't work; shutdown, disconnect slave drive (pwr or ide cable) reboot. The cd should be found. Shutdown, reconnect slave and reboot. As you origonally had a single hd, functioning sys, D will be the cd, any slave drives installed will start from E "digeratia" wrote in message ... And I thought it was going so well. After being able to see all my HD's, now I cannot see my removable drives, i.e.the CD-ROM drive. When I assigned the drive letters to the partitioned 20GB drive, I was prompted to restart windows for the changes to take effect. Before restarting I saw my C; D (CD-ROM); E; and F; Now I can see my HD's but no CD-ROM drive. I entered set up and used the automatic hard drive detection option to set up the drives, but it's not seeing the CD drive. I was about to re-install the software to the drive that came with the new machine, but I am not getting very far because I cannot read the applications from the CD. What do I do next? "DL" wrote: The win installation to the hd is specific to the pc it was set up on. When you move the win o/s hd to a new pc the sys will not boot because win doesnt recognise the hardware. You have to undertake a repair installation of win, using the win cd, in order that the new sys is recognised. You can copy, using IE, any data to any hd. You cannot however move applications, these will have to be reinstalled. Any Apps you wish to leave on the 'old' now slave hd, will have to be reinstalled. Use custom install method to ensure that they are reinstalled over the origonal install. You have to do this as apps alter/add settings to the win registry. Your new win install cannot 'see' these untill they are reinstalled. "digeratia" wrote in message ... Success. Thanks very much. I can see my old 20GB hard drive with all my data. I tried to get the computer to boot up off my 20GB hard drive by making it the primary drive and adjusting the jumper settings, but it's not being recognised by the software. It gets to the boot up screen asking me to chose the last known good configuration and then no further. I suspect I will have to copy everything, including all my email settings etc to the smaller boot up drive. How do I copy the data from the old hard drive to the new one, so that on boot up everything appears as it was befoe the upgrade? Why won't the computer boot up off my old HD? "DL" wrote: The 'new' hd, containing the o/s as the boot disk will not be recognised - by that I mean the winxp install will not be recognised as it is specific to the hw it was installed on. Use the new pc, with yr current winxp o/s, install old hd as slave. When you boot up you may see notification of the hd's in the boot sequence. Use disk management to check whether new disk is seen, it may be that you need to assign a drive letter. If not seen in disk management, reboot yr sys and enter the bios; often by pressing DEL during the boot process. Check that new disk is detected "Digeratia" wrote in message ... On my very old PC I had a 20GB Seagate hard drive, which I upgraded from Win98 to WinXP Profesional. The upgrade went well. The hard drive was partitioned into two 10GB sections because the motherboard would not allow the entire the entire 20GB to be formatted (that's what the engineer said). I recently bought another computer, newer than the old PC which also contained a Seagate 15GB hard drive running Win98SE. I also upgraded this drive to WinXp professional, which went well. Becasue all my data is on the 20GB drive, I swapped out the 15GB drive with my 20GB drive, but it was not recognised on boot up. I then re-installed the 15GB drive that came with the computer and attached my 20GB drive as a slave ensuring I made the correct jumper settings, but it's not being found by the system. I feel that it's a bit more than just hoping XP will find the new hardware if it's not there on boot up. If I need to enter into the system BIOS to let the system know there is a slave drive, how do I do this? Is there a step-by-step tutorial I can follow that will point me in the right direction? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appareciated. Thanks very much. Digeratia. |
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Access to my slave drive
I didn't do anything with assigning the drive letters. When XP found the
slave drive which is partitioned, it assigned them E and F respectively, as A, C, D (CD-ROM) were already assigned. I was prompted to restart and then after that the CD disappeared. What I've done so far: Unplug the slave drive (E,F). RESTART Enter set up and did the automatic HD detection. Set up did not find the CD-ROM Cotinued with the restart, went to disk management and did a search for new hardware. No CD-ROM found Shut down. Unplugged the CD-ROM (power and cable) Slave drive unplugged Restart. Did not enter set up. Went to Disk manager and searched for new hardware CD-ROM not found. Shut down. Reconnected CD-ROM drive, not slave. Re-start and entered setup. Did HD automatic detection. The CD-ROM was not detected. I am thinking back to what I could have done to make the CD-ROM not be detected and I don't think I deliberatly did anything to cause it not to be detected. What needs to be done next? "DL" wrote: You should have left the drive letters as they were, I'm assuming E & F were the slave and its two partitions. In Hardware, delete the CD Rom, and reboot pc. If that doesn't work; shutdown, disconnect slave drive (pwr or ide cable) reboot. The cd should be found. Shutdown, reconnect slave and reboot. As you origonally had a single hd, functioning sys, D will be the cd, any slave drives installed will start from E "digeratia" wrote in message ... And I thought it was going so well. After being able to see all my HD's, now I cannot see my removable drives, i.e.the CD-ROM drive. When I assigned the drive letters to the partitioned 20GB drive, I was prompted to restart windows for the changes to take effect. Before restarting I saw my C; D (CD-ROM); E; and F; Now I can see my HD's but no CD-ROM drive. I entered set up and used the automatic hard drive detection option to set up the drives, but it's not seeing the CD drive. I was about to re-install the software to the drive that came with the new machine, but I am not getting very far because I cannot read the applications from the CD. What do I do next? "DL" wrote: The win installation to the hd is specific to the pc it was set up on. When you move the win o/s hd to a new pc the sys will not boot because win doesnt recognise the hardware. You have to undertake a repair installation of win, using the win cd, in order that the new sys is recognised. You can copy, using IE, any data to any hd. You cannot however move applications, these will have to be reinstalled. Any Apps you wish to leave on the 'old' now slave hd, will have to be reinstalled. Use custom install method to ensure that they are reinstalled over the origonal install. You have to do this as apps alter/add settings to the win registry. Your new win install cannot 'see' these untill they are reinstalled. "digeratia" wrote in message ... Success. Thanks very much. I can see my old 20GB hard drive with all my data. I tried to get the computer to boot up off my 20GB hard drive by making it the primary drive and adjusting the jumper settings, but it's not being recognised by the software. It gets to the boot up screen asking me to chose the last known good configuration and then no further. I suspect I will have to copy everything, including all my email settings etc to the smaller boot up drive. How do I copy the data from the old hard drive to the new one, so that on boot up everything appears as it was befoe the upgrade? Why won't the computer boot up off my old HD? "DL" wrote: The 'new' hd, containing the o/s as the boot disk will not be recognised - by that I mean the winxp install will not be recognised as it is specific to the hw it was installed on. Use the new pc, with yr current winxp o/s, install old hd as slave. When you boot up you may see notification of the hd's in the boot sequence. Use disk management to check whether new disk is seen, it may be that you need to assign a drive letter. If not seen in disk management, reboot yr sys and enter the bios; often by pressing DEL during the boot process. Check that new disk is detected "Digeratia" wrote in message ... On my very old PC I had a 20GB Seagate hard drive, which I upgraded from Win98 to WinXP Profesional. The upgrade went well. The hard drive was partitioned into two 10GB sections because the motherboard would not allow the entire the entire 20GB to be formatted (that's what the engineer said). I recently bought another computer, newer than the old PC which also contained a Seagate 15GB hard drive running Win98SE. I also upgraded this drive to WinXp professional, which went well. Becasue all my data is on the 20GB drive, I swapped out the 15GB drive with my 20GB drive, but it was not recognised on boot up. I then re-installed the 15GB drive that came with the computer and attached my 20GB drive as a slave ensuring I made the correct jumper settings, but it's not being found by the system. I feel that it's a bit more than just hoping XP will find the new hardware if it's not there on boot up. If I need to enter into the system BIOS to let the system know there is a slave drive, how do I do this? Is there a step-by-step tutorial I can follow that will point me in the right direction? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appareciated. Thanks very much. Digeratia. |
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Suspect in Device manager you need to "View", "Show Hidden" to see the
CD-ROM. Also suggest the HD be made the Primary and CD-rom be Slave. digeratia wrote: I didn't do anything with assigning the drive letters. When XP found the slave drive which is partitioned, it assigned them E and F respectively, as A, C, D (CD-ROM) were already assigned. I was prompted to restart and then after that the CD disappeared. What I've done so far: Unplug the slave drive (E,F). RESTART Enter set up and did the automatic HD detection. Set up did not find the CD-ROM Cotinued with the restart, went to disk management and did a search for new hardware. No CD-ROM found Shut down. Unplugged the CD-ROM (power and cable) Slave drive unplugged Restart. Did not enter set up. Went to Disk manager and searched for new hardware CD-ROM not found. Shut down. Reconnected CD-ROM drive, not slave. Re-start and entered setup. Did HD automatic detection. The CD-ROM was not detected. I am thinking back to what I could have done to make the CD-ROM not be detected and I don't think I deliberatly did anything to cause it not to be detected. What needs to be done next? "DL" wrote: You should have left the drive letters as they were, I'm assuming E & F were the slave and its two partitions. In Hardware, delete the CD Rom, and reboot pc. If that doesn't work; shutdown, disconnect slave drive (pwr or ide cable) reboot. The cd should be found. Shutdown, reconnect slave and reboot. As you origonally had a single hd, functioning sys, D will be the cd, any slave drives installed will start from E "digeratia" wrote in message ... And I thought it was going so well. After being able to see all my HD's, now I cannot see my removable drives, i.e.the CD-ROM drive. When I assigned the drive letters to the partitioned 20GB drive, I was prompted to restart windows for the changes to take effect. Before restarting I saw my C; D (CD-ROM); E; and F; Now I can see my HD's but no CD-ROM drive. I entered set up and used the automatic hard drive detection option to set up the drives, but it's not seeing the CD drive. I was about to re-install the software to the drive that came with the new machine, but I am not getting very far because I cannot read the applications from the CD. What do I do next? "DL" wrote: The win installation to the hd is specific to the pc it was set up on. When you move the win o/s hd to a new pc the sys will not boot because win doesnt recognise the hardware. You have to undertake a repair installation of win, using the win cd, in order that the new sys is recognised. You can copy, using IE, any data to any hd. You cannot however move applications, these will have to be reinstalled. Any Apps you wish to leave on the 'old' now slave hd, will have to be reinstalled. Use custom install method to ensure that they are reinstalled over the origonal install. You have to do this as apps alter/add settings to the win registry. Your new win install cannot 'see' these untill they are reinstalled. "digeratia" wrote in message ... Success. Thanks very much. I can see my old 20GB hard drive with all my data. I tried to get the computer to boot up off my 20GB hard drive by making it the primary drive and adjusting the jumper settings, but it's not being recognised by the software. It gets to the boot up screen asking me to chose the last known good configuration and then no further. I suspect I will have to copy everything, including all my email settings etc to the smaller boot up drive. How do I copy the data from the old hard drive to the new one, so that on boot up everything appears as it was befoe the upgrade? Why won't the computer boot up off my old HD? "DL" wrote: The 'new' hd, containing the o/s as the boot disk will not be recognised - by that I mean the winxp install will not be recognised as it is specific to the hw it was installed on. Use the new pc, with yr current winxp o/s, install old hd as slave. When you boot up you may see notification of the hd's in the boot sequence. Use disk management to check whether new disk is seen, it may be that you need to assign a drive letter. If not seen in disk management, reboot yr sys and enter the bios; often by pressing DEL during the boot process. Check that new disk is detected "Digeratia" wrote in message ... On my very old PC I had a 20GB Seagate hard drive, which I upgraded from Win98 to WinXP Profesional. The upgrade went well. The hard drive was partitioned into two 10GB sections because the motherboard would not allow the entire the entire 20GB to be formatted (that's what the engineer said). I recently bought another computer, newer than the old PC which also contained a Seagate 15GB hard drive running Win98SE. I also upgraded this drive to WinXp professional, which went well. Becasue all my data is on the 20GB drive, I swapped out the 15GB drive with my 20GB drive, but it was not recognised on boot up. I then re-installed the 15GB drive that came with the computer and attached my 20GB drive as a slave ensuring I made the correct jumper settings, but it's not being found by the system. I feel that it's a bit more than just hoping XP will find the new hardware if it's not there on boot up. If I need to enter into the system BIOS to let the system know there is a slave drive, how do I do this? Is there a step-by-step tutorial I can follow that will point me in the right direction? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appareciated. Thanks very much. Digeratia. |
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The "show hidden" in Device Manager did not reveal the CD-ROM. I've tried to
install hardware using the Add Hardware wizard, but windows did not detect that the CD-ROM is present or give it as an option to install when I list "Show all devices". Even when I go to setup on boot up, Windows will only see the A, C and the slave drive which is partitioned E & F. I dont know what next to try. I think this may be beyond my limited trouble shooting knowledge. What would you suggest as a next step that I can follow? "Bob I" wrote: Suspect in Device manager you need to "View", "Show Hidden" to see the CD-ROM. Also suggest the HD be made the Primary and CD-rom be Slave. digeratia wrote: I didn't do anything with assigning the drive letters. When XP found the slave drive which is partitioned, it assigned them E and F respectively, as A, C, D (CD-ROM) were already assigned. I was prompted to restart and then after that the CD disappeared. What I've done so far: Unplug the slave drive (E,F). RESTART Enter set up and did the automatic HD detection. Set up did not find the CD-ROM Cotinued with the restart, went to disk management and did a search for new hardware. No CD-ROM found Shut down. Unplugged the CD-ROM (power and cable) Slave drive unplugged Restart. Did not enter set up. Went to Disk manager and searched for new hardware CD-ROM not found. Shut down. Reconnected CD-ROM drive, not slave. Re-start and entered setup. Did HD automatic detection. The CD-ROM was not detected. I am thinking back to what I could have done to make the CD-ROM not be detected and I don't think I deliberatly did anything to cause it not to be detected. What needs to be done next? "DL" wrote: You should have left the drive letters as they were, I'm assuming E & F were the slave and its two partitions. In Hardware, delete the CD Rom, and reboot pc. If that doesn't work; shutdown, disconnect slave drive (pwr or ide cable) reboot. The cd should be found. Shutdown, reconnect slave and reboot. As you origonally had a single hd, functioning sys, D will be the cd, any slave drives installed will start from E "digeratia" wrote in message ... And I thought it was going so well. After being able to see all my HD's, now I cannot see my removable drives, i.e.the CD-ROM drive. When I assigned the drive letters to the partitioned 20GB drive, I was prompted to restart windows for the changes to take effect. Before restarting I saw my C; D (CD-ROM); E; and F; Now I can see my HD's but no CD-ROM drive. I entered set up and used the automatic hard drive detection option to set up the drives, but it's not seeing the CD drive. I was about to re-install the software to the drive that came with the new machine, but I am not getting very far because I cannot read the applications from the CD. What do I do next? "DL" wrote: The win installation to the hd is specific to the pc it was set up on. When you move the win o/s hd to a new pc the sys will not boot because win doesnt recognise the hardware. You have to undertake a repair installation of win, using the win cd, in order that the new sys is recognised. You can copy, using IE, any data to any hd. You cannot however move applications, these will have to be reinstalled. Any Apps you wish to leave on the 'old' now slave hd, will have to be reinstalled. Use custom install method to ensure that they are reinstalled over the origonal install. You have to do this as apps alter/add settings to the win registry. Your new win install cannot 'see' these untill they are reinstalled. "digeratia" wrote in message ... Success. Thanks very much. I can see my old 20GB hard drive with all my data. I tried to get the computer to boot up off my 20GB hard drive by making it the primary drive and adjusting the jumper settings, but it's not being recognised by the software. It gets to the boot up screen asking me to chose the last known good configuration and then no further. I suspect I will have to copy everything, including all my email settings etc to the smaller boot up drive. How do I copy the data from the old hard drive to the new one, so that on boot up everything appears as it was befoe the upgrade? Why won't the computer boot up off my old HD? "DL" wrote: The 'new' hd, containing the o/s as the boot disk will not be recognised - by that I mean the winxp install will not be recognised as it is specific to the hw it was installed on. Use the new pc, with yr current winxp o/s, install old hd as slave. When you boot up you may see notification of the hd's in the boot sequence. Use disk management to check whether new disk is seen, it may be that you need to assign a drive letter. If not seen in disk management, reboot yr sys and enter the bios; often by pressing DEL during the boot process. Check that new disk is detected "Digeratia" wrote in message ... On my very old PC I had a 20GB Seagate hard drive, which I upgraded from Win98 to WinXP Profesional. The upgrade went well. The hard drive was partitioned into two 10GB sections because the motherboard would not allow the entire the entire 20GB to be formatted (that's what the engineer said). I recently bought another computer, newer than the old PC which also contained a Seagate 15GB hard drive running Win98SE. I also upgraded this drive to WinXp professional, which went well. Becasue all my data is on the 20GB drive, I swapped out the 15GB drive with my 20GB drive, but it was not recognised on boot up. I then re-installed the 15GB drive that came with the computer and attached my 20GB drive as a slave ensuring I made the correct jumper settings, but it's not being found by the system. I feel that it's a bit more than just hoping XP will find the new hardware if it's not there on boot up. If I need to enter into the system BIOS to let the system know there is a slave drive, how do I do this? Is there a step-by-step tutorial I can follow that will point me in the right direction? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appareciated. Thanks very much. Digeratia. |
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This sounds like you have a Hardware issue, as in the hardware is not
correctly connected. The cables need to be correctly connected. Power and Data. The drive Jumpers need to be correctly set as to whether Master or slave. And the IDE connector must be enabled in BIOS. And the drive must not be broken. Any of the forgoing items will render the Operating system unable to see the drive. digeratia wrote: The "show hidden" in Device Manager did not reveal the CD-ROM. I've tried to install hardware using the Add Hardware wizard, but windows did not detect that the CD-ROM is present or give it as an option to install when I list "Show all devices". Even when I go to setup on boot up, Windows will only see the A, C and the slave drive which is partitioned E & F. I dont know what next to try. I think this may be beyond my limited trouble shooting knowledge. What would you suggest as a next step that I can follow? "Bob I" wrote: Suspect in Device manager you need to "View", "Show Hidden" to see the CD-ROM. Also suggest the HD be made the Primary and CD-rom be Slave. digeratia wrote: I didn't do anything with assigning the drive letters. When XP found the slave drive which is partitioned, it assigned them E and F respectively, as A, C, D (CD-ROM) were already assigned. I was prompted to restart and then after that the CD disappeared. What I've done so far: Unplug the slave drive (E,F). RESTART Enter set up and did the automatic HD detection. Set up did not find the CD-ROM Cotinued with the restart, went to disk management and did a search for new hardware. No CD-ROM found Shut down. Unplugged the CD-ROM (power and cable) Slave drive unplugged Restart. Did not enter set up. Went to Disk manager and searched for new hardware CD-ROM not found. Shut down. Reconnected CD-ROM drive, not slave. Re-start and entered setup. Did HD automatic detection. The CD-ROM was not detected. I am thinking back to what I could have done to make the CD-ROM not be detected and I don't think I deliberatly did anything to cause it not to be detected. What needs to be done next? "DL" wrote: You should have left the drive letters as they were, I'm assuming E & F were the slave and its two partitions. In Hardware, delete the CD Rom, and reboot pc. If that doesn't work; shutdown, disconnect slave drive (pwr or ide cable) reboot. The cd should be found. Shutdown, reconnect slave and reboot. As you origonally had a single hd, functioning sys, D will be the cd, any slave drives installed will start from E "digeratia" wrote in message ... And I thought it was going so well. After being able to see all my HD's, now I cannot see my removable drives, i.e.the CD-ROM drive. When I assigned the drive letters to the partitioned 20GB drive, I was prompted to restart windows for the changes to take effect. Before restarting I saw my C; D (CD-ROM); E; and F; Now I can see my HD's but no CD-ROM drive. I entered set up and used the automatic hard drive detection option to set up the drives, but it's not seeing the CD drive. I was about to re-install the software to the drive that came with the new machine, but I am not getting very far because I cannot read the applications from the CD. What do I do next? "DL" wrote: The win installation to the hd is specific to the pc it was set up on. When you move the win o/s hd to a new pc the sys will not boot because win doesnt recognise the hardware. You have to undertake a repair installation of win, using the win cd, in order that the new sys is recognised. You can copy, using IE, any data to any hd. You cannot however move applications, these will have to be reinstalled. Any Apps you wish to leave on the 'old' now slave hd, will have to be reinstalled. Use custom install method to ensure that they are reinstalled over the origonal install. You have to do this as apps alter/add settings to the win registry. Your new win install cannot 'see' these untill they are reinstalled. "digeratia" wrote in message ... Success. Thanks very much. I can see my old 20GB hard drive with all my data. I tried to get the computer to boot up off my 20GB hard drive by making it the primary drive and adjusting the jumper settings, but it's not being recognised by the software. It gets to the boot up screen asking me to chose the last known good configuration and then no further. I suspect I will have to copy everything, including all my email settings etc to the smaller boot up drive. How do I copy the data from the old hard drive to the new one, so that on boot up everything appears as it was befoe the upgrade? Why won't the computer boot up off my old HD? "DL" wrote: The 'new' hd, containing the o/s as the boot disk will not be recognised - by that I mean the winxp install will not be recognised as it is specific to the hw it was installed on. Use the new pc, with yr current winxp o/s, install old hd as slave. When you boot up you may see notification of the hd's in the boot sequence. Use disk management to check whether new disk is seen, it may be that you need to assign a drive letter. If not seen in disk management, reboot yr sys and enter the bios; often by pressing DEL during the boot process. Check that new disk is detected "Digeratia" wrote in message ... On my very old PC I had a 20GB Seagate hard drive, which I upgraded from Win98 to WinXP Profesional. The upgrade went well. The hard drive was partitioned into two 10GB sections because the motherboard would not allow the entire the entire 20GB to be formatted (that's what the engineer said). I recently bought another computer, newer than the old PC which also contained a Seagate 15GB hard drive running Win98SE. I also upgraded this drive to WinXp professional, which went well. Becasue all my data is on the 20GB drive, I swapped out the 15GB drive with my 20GB drive, but it was not recognised on boot up. I then re-installed the 15GB drive that came with the computer and attached my 20GB drive as a slave ensuring I made the correct jumper settings, but it's not being found by the system. I feel that it's a bit more than just hoping XP will find the new hardware if it's not there on boot up. If I need to enter into the system BIOS to let the system know there is a slave drive, how do I do this? Is there a step-by-step tutorial I can follow that will point me in the right direction? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appareciated. Thanks very much. Digeratia. |
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I have somewhat if the same problem, except I copied from one drive to the
other. When I removed the old drive, I can't seem how to figure out how to reorganize the drive letters (A, C, D, & E instead of A, C, F & G) "Digeratia" wrote: On my very old PC I had a 20GB Seagate hard drive, which I upgraded from Win98 to WinXP Profesional. The upgrade went well. The hard drive was partitioned into two 10GB sections because the motherboard would not allow the entire the entire 20GB to be formatted (that's what the engineer said). I recently bought another computer, newer than the old PC which also contained a Seagate 15GB hard drive running Win98SE. I also upgraded this drive to WinXp professional, which went well. Becasue all my data is on the 20GB drive, I swapped out the 15GB drive with my 20GB drive, but it was not recognised on boot up. I then re-installed the 15GB drive that came with the computer and attached my 20GB drive as a slave ensuring I made the correct jumper settings, but it's not being found by the system. I feel that it's a bit more than just hoping XP will find the new hardware if it's not there on boot up. If I need to enter into the system BIOS to let the system know there is a slave drive, how do I do this? Is there a step-by-step tutorial I can follow that will point me in the right direction? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appareciated. Thanks very much. Digeratia. |
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Try right clicking on My Computer, select disk management, Select Action
(pull down menu)/All Tasks/Change Drive Letter and Paths. It'll then let you change the drive letter for the selected drive. "meredets" wrote in message ... I have somewhat if the same problem, except I copied from one drive to the other. When I removed the old drive, I can't seem how to figure out how to reorganize the drive letters (A, C, D, & E instead of A, C, F & G) "Digeratia" wrote: On my very old PC I had a 20GB Seagate hard drive, which I upgraded from Win98 to WinXP Profesional. The upgrade went well. The hard drive was partitioned into two 10GB sections because the motherboard would not allow the entire the entire 20GB to be formatted (that's what the engineer said). I recently bought another computer, newer than the old PC which also contained a Seagate 15GB hard drive running Win98SE. I also upgraded this drive to WinXp professional, which went well. Becasue all my data is on the 20GB drive, I swapped out the 15GB drive with my 20GB drive, but it was not recognised on boot up. I then re-installed the 15GB drive that came with the computer and attached my 20GB drive as a slave ensuring I made the correct jumper settings, but it's not being found by the system. I feel that it's a bit more than just hoping XP will find the new hardware if it's not there on boot up. If I need to enter into the system BIOS to let the system know there is a slave drive, how do I do this? Is there a step-by-step tutorial I can follow that will point me in the right direction? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appareciated. Thanks very much. Digeratia. |
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Thanks Dave. I tried to do the same thing for the CDROM as well but not
having any luck...any suggestions? "Dave" wrote: Try right clicking on My Computer, select disk management, Select Action (pull down menu)/All Tasks/Change Drive Letter and Paths. It'll then let you change the drive letter for the selected drive. "meredets" wrote in message ... I have somewhat if the same problem, except I copied from one drive to the other. When I removed the old drive, I can't seem how to figure out how to reorganize the drive letters (A, C, D, & E instead of A, C, F & G) "Digeratia" wrote: On my very old PC I had a 20GB Seagate hard drive, which I upgraded from Win98 to WinXP Profesional. The upgrade went well. The hard drive was partitioned into two 10GB sections because the motherboard would not allow the entire the entire 20GB to be formatted (that's what the engineer said). I recently bought another computer, newer than the old PC which also contained a Seagate 15GB hard drive running Win98SE. I also upgraded this drive to WinXp professional, which went well. Becasue all my data is on the 20GB drive, I swapped out the 15GB drive with my 20GB drive, but it was not recognised on boot up. I then re-installed the 15GB drive that came with the computer and attached my 20GB drive as a slave ensuring I made the correct jumper settings, but it's not being found by the system. I feel that it's a bit more than just hoping XP will find the new hardware if it's not there on boot up. If I need to enter into the system BIOS to let the system know there is a slave drive, how do I do this? Is there a step-by-step tutorial I can follow that will point me in the right direction? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appareciated. Thanks very much. Digeratia. |
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What are you getting when you try?
"meredets" wrote in message ... Thanks Dave. I tried to do the same thing for the CDROM as well but not having any luck...any suggestions? "Dave" wrote: Try right clicking on My Computer, select disk management, Select Action (pull down menu)/All Tasks/Change Drive Letter and Paths. It'll then let you change the drive letter for the selected drive. "meredets" wrote in message ... I have somewhat if the same problem, except I copied from one drive to the other. When I removed the old drive, I can't seem how to figure out how to reorganize the drive letters (A, C, D, & E instead of A, C, F & G) "Digeratia" wrote: On my very old PC I had a 20GB Seagate hard drive, which I upgraded from Win98 to WinXP Profesional. The upgrade went well. The hard drive was partitioned into two 10GB sections because the motherboard would not allow the entire the entire 20GB to be formatted (that's what the engineer said). I recently bought another computer, newer than the old PC which also contained a Seagate 15GB hard drive running Win98SE. I also upgraded this drive to WinXp professional, which went well. Becasue all my data is on the 20GB drive, I swapped out the 15GB drive with my 20GB drive, but it was not recognised on boot up. I then re-installed the 15GB drive that came with the computer and attached my 20GB drive as a slave ensuring I made the correct jumper settings, but it's not being found by the system. I feel that it's a bit more than just hoping XP will find the new hardware if it's not there on boot up. If I need to enter into the system BIOS to let the system know there is a slave drive, how do I do this? Is there a step-by-step tutorial I can follow that will point me in the right direction? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appareciated. Thanks very much. Digeratia. |
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When you first boot the machine, look at the screen and see which keys you
need to press to enter Setup. This varies and could be the delete key, F1 key, F2 key or a combination of keys such as Ctrl+Esc. Once you find out which key to press, reboot and start tapping on that key. You will enter the Setup routine. Within this routine, find the IDE device setup or Hard Drive setup, or there could be a utility to Detect IDE, or AutoDetect IDE. You should have Primary and Secondary Drives listed. Each of those will have a master and slave under them. If you connected both of your drives to the same cable, both drives will be listed under the Primary Drives section. Look for Auto or Auto detect and select that. This will detect the slave drive. Once it is detected, it should show up in the Setup program. Next, select Save and Exit. The machine will reboot and should recognize the slave drive. This has to be done before the drive will show up in My Computer. mark "meredets" wrote in message ... I have somewhat if the same problem, except I copied from one drive to the other. When I removed the old drive, I can't seem how to figure out how to reorganize the drive letters (A, C, D, & E instead of A, C, F & G) "Digeratia" wrote: On my very old PC I had a 20GB Seagate hard drive, which I upgraded from Win98 to WinXP Profesional. The upgrade went well. The hard drive was partitioned into two 10GB sections because the motherboard would not allow the entire the entire 20GB to be formatted (that's what the engineer said). I recently bought another computer, newer than the old PC which also contained a Seagate 15GB hard drive running Win98SE. I also upgraded this drive to WinXp professional, which went well. Becasue all my data is on the 20GB drive, I swapped out the 15GB drive with my 20GB drive, but it was not recognised on boot up. I then re-installed the 15GB drive that came with the computer and attached my 20GB drive as a slave ensuring I made the correct jumper settings, but it's not being found by the system. I feel that it's a bit more than just hoping XP will find the new hardware if it's not there on boot up. If I need to enter into the system BIOS to let the system know there is a slave drive, how do I do this? Is there a step-by-step tutorial I can follow that will point me in the right direction? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appareciated. Thanks very much. Digeratia. |
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