Re: XP Home won't boot with slave HD connected
From: Ron Sommer (rsommer_at_nospam.ktis.net)
Date: 02/28/05
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:03:56 -0600
"ByTor" <ByTor@snowdog.com> wrote in message
news:HvDUd.37112$2k1.21470@fe74.usenetserver.com...
> In article <c8106874.0502280249.4ede91a6@posting.google.com>,
> tonyeva@talk21.com, Tony Eva says...
>
>> ByTor <ByTor@snowdog.com> wrote in message
>> news:<K9jUd.15062$vF2.4548@fe13.usenetserver.com>...
>> > Tony, I would suggest this as you may have a conflict with "two" active
>> > OS's at once confusing your system.......The status on the 2nd drive
>> > has
>> > to be changed, once done you can have XOSL set to view your second
>> > drives OS partition viewed with your first...........
>> >
>> > http://www2.arnes.si/~fkomar/xosl.org/
>> >
>> > Give it a little read though.....I'm only taking a shot here as I have
>> > had this happen to me on several occasions with other machines....Than
>> > again I use other methods that might not be available for ya....$$$$$$
>> >
>> > Anyway give it a whirl I'm sure it won't hurt your system as I believe
>> > XOSL can actually be run standalone from CD or floppy.....Anyway, give
>> > it a read.........
>>
>> Thanks for the info, XOSL looks useful and I'll read up on it a bit
>> more.
>>
>> I have now (sort of) solved my problem by using INSERT
>> (www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html) which can see both HDs
>> without any problems. By mounting the new drive using the captive
>> file system, I can get NTFS write access to it and I'm able to copy
>> from the old to the new. It's very very slow though (only about
>> 50kB/sec transfer rate) so it'd be useful to know about a better way.
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>>
>>
>
> Hmmmm, looks useful..never heard of it though.....Me personally I would
> quickly use PartitionMagic to check the status of the old drive and
> change it to inactive......Anyway, I'd still give XOSL a shot, it's not
> as hard as it looks...........
> I noticed people have been suggesting proper pin configurations on the
> drives, I take it you have done this? Have you tried "cable
> select"....Believe it or not I've had dopey drives in the past that one
> or a combo would not play nice together unless I used the cable select
> option.............
>
> Good Luck.....
>
The OP stated the drive was placed on the secondary IDE cable and the
computer still wouldn't boot.
I have had drives go bad and will stop an operating system from booting even
when connected to the secondary IDE.
-- Ron Sommer
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