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I have a dell dimension xps gen2 pc, and had orginally a 100 GB sata hard
drive installed on sata0 with XP Pro. All I wanted to do was install a second sata drive on sata1 as a slave drive and use it for backup. When I plugged it in and turned it on, everything went fine. I had to go to computer management to initialize and format the new drive, but it worked fine. However, when I shut the pc down and tried to restart, I get past the dell start up, and then just a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left corner. I tried unplugging the new drive, and even updating the bios, but nothing worked. There are no jumpers on either drive, and I have read that sata drives dont need them. Also, I have RAID turned off, and both drives are turned on in bios. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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"However, when I shut the pc down and tried to restart..."
Did you install the new drive while your computer was still running? --- Ted Zieglar "Backup is a computer user's best friend." Caddyman wrote: I have a dell dimension xps gen2 pc, and had orginally a 100 GB sata hard drive installed on sata0 with XP Pro. All I wanted to do was install a second sata drive on sata1 as a slave drive and use it for backup. When I plugged it in and turned it on, everything went fine. I had to go to computer management to initialize and format the new drive, but it worked fine. However, when I shut the pc down and tried to restart, I get past the dell start up, and then just a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left corner. I tried unplugging the new drive, and even updating the bios, but nothing worked. There are no jumpers on either drive, and I have read that sata drives dont need them. Also, I have RAID turned off, and both drives are turned on in bios. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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no, i had it completely shut down and unplugged.
"Ted Zieglar" wrote: "However, when I shut the pc down and tried to restart..." Did you install the new drive while your computer was still running? --- Ted Zieglar "Backup is a computer user's best friend." Caddyman wrote: I have a dell dimension xps gen2 pc, and had orginally a 100 GB sata hard drive installed on sata0 with XP Pro. All I wanted to do was install a second sata drive on sata1 as a slave drive and use it for backup. When I plugged it in and turned it on, everything went fine. I had to go to computer management to initialize and format the new drive, but it worked fine. However, when I shut the pc down and tried to restart, I get past the dell start up, and then just a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left corner. I tried unplugging the new drive, and even updating the bios, but nothing worked. There are no jumpers on either drive, and I have read that sata drives dont need them. Also, I have RAID turned off, and both drives are turned on in bios. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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Phew...I was hoping you would say that!
Could you have accidentally dislodged either the power cable or the data cable? Happens to the best of us. (And I am certainly not in that category.) --- Ted Zieglar "Backup is a computer user's best friend." Caddyman wrote: no, i had it completely shut down and unplugged. "Ted Zieglar" wrote: "However, when I shut the pc down and tried to restart..." Did you install the new drive while your computer was still running? --- Ted Zieglar "Backup is a computer user's best friend." Caddyman wrote: I have a dell dimension xps gen2 pc, and had orginally a 100 GB sata hard drive installed on sata0 with XP Pro. All I wanted to do was install a second sata drive on sata1 as a slave drive and use it for backup. When I plugged it in and turned it on, everything went fine. I had to go to computer management to initialize and format the new drive, but it worked fine. However, when I shut the pc down and tried to restart, I get past the dell start up, and then just a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left corner. I tried unplugging the new drive, and even updating the bios, but nothing worked. There are no jumpers on either drive, and I have read that sata drives dont need them. Also, I have RAID turned off, and both drives are turned on in bios. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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