Re: HD and Windows Installation Issue. HELP!!!

The problem is occurring since XP does not know which HD to start from. Since
two copies of a start-up of XP exists, XP boot loader is confused!




On 11/10/2006 "LVTravel" <none@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The first thing I would try is to make the 120 GB drive the Master on the
primary IDE channel and the 40GB the secondary on the Primary IDE Channel
(save the secondary channel for the optical media drives.)]

I have seen many problems with people trying to install XP on the secondary
drive (even though I believe this is possible.) Make sure to change the
jumpers on the drives when moving them into their new position.

"compfused" <cho.james@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1160538973.311177.32930@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I recently purchased a new Seagate 300GB SATA Hard Drive.
My computer consists of:
Processor: Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
Motherboard: ASUS P4P800 E Deluxe
RAM: (2) Kingston 512MB PC2700 DDR
DVD-RW: Pioneer 8x DVD-RW (primary)
CD-RW: Lite-On 52x CD-RW
Hard Drive: Hitachi 40GB IDE (master), Western Digitial 120GB IDE
(slave).
I installed the new 300GB SATA HD while my computer was functioning as
the (E:) Drive. I wanted to use the 120GB IDE as the primary and 40GB
IDE as storage along with 300GB SATA in any order it didn't matter. I
attempted to install Windows on the 120GB while it was a slave. When
the DOS mode and setup loading was complete it rebooted and froze on
the WIN XP loading screen, with the rolling bar on the bottom freezes
after one cycle. I went back and tried to install Windows with 120GB
installed only and it did the same thing. I tried to reconnect the HD
configured in the original configuration while it was working and was
unsuccessful. I get an error message of something about a HD
configuration or path (will update later this evening) it does not even

get to the Windows XP loading screen.
As I do not in wish to install windows on the 300GB HD is it possible
for me to use the hard drives in the order that I would like or is it
not possible? Why am I unable to install Windows on my 120GB HD?


Thanks in advance to everyone.




--
---

Y.

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: HD and Windows Installation Issue. HELP!!!
    ... primary IDE channel and the 40GB the secondary on the Primary IDE Channel ... jumpers on the drives when moving them into their new position. ... attempted to install Windows on the 120GB while it was a slave. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
  • Re: HD and Windows Installation Issue. HELP!!!
    ... primary IDE channel and the 40GB the secondary on the Primary IDE Channel ... jumpers on the drives when moving them into their new position. ... attempted to install Windows on the 120GB while it was a slave. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
  • Re: HD and Windows Installation Issue. HELP!!!
    ... When I try and install Windows after the initial setup page when it ... 300GB and tried to install windows after formating the drive. ... primary IDE channel and the 40GB the secondary on the Primary IDE Channel ... jumpers on the drives when moving them into their new position. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
  • Re: Slow Install -- OS/2 Warp 4
    ... Win98 apparently doesn't really care if the drives are not ... jumpered according to IDE specificaitons, ... I have one HD, primary IDE channel, master. ...
    (comp.os.os2.setup.misc)
  • Re: Strange PEER error with Danis 506 1.81 generic question
    ... In the case of everything so far up until the Intel 915GAVL/GEVL and still in research 945 series motherboards, there have been two IDE controllers on the boards. ... Thus the primary hard disk controller from which the finished box will normally boot would be the Master on IDE controller #1. ... if there were, for example, two IDE hard drives, one would be the normal boot device as the Master on the primary IDE controller. ... to generate a report of scsi and "fake scsi" devices on a mixed scsi hard drives/ide dvd burner and dvd-rom system but I seem to recall that all scsi devices got listed before any ide devices - including the scsi scanner I had. ...
    (comp.os.os2.bugs)
Loading