Re: New Hard drive disk installation

From: Yves Leclerc (yleclercNOSPAM_at_maysys.com)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:00:28 -0500

NO, not all hard drive have to have no jumper taken off for it to be a
master drive.

"Jerry" <NoSpamChiefZeke@MSN.com> wrote in message
news:eUZwTCW7EHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> 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" <Monty@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:610D97E9-A45A-4884-BC46-783B6E94C14E@microsoft.com...
>>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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