Hard Drive trouble

From: Papa (ebr_at_nospamshawneelink.net)
Date: 05/10/04 

Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 17:37:12 -0500

Andrew,
Thank you for your reply. I have not yet received the hard drive from
Western Digital, but I thought that I would prepare my system by
incorporating some of your suggestions.
First I removed my old drive. Then I rearranged my IDE cables according to
your suggestions. Now for some reason I can not get the system to boot at
all. If I use my Data Lifeguard tools floppy, it tells me that the 80Gb
hard drive is ok. When I try to boot I get a message saying "Unknown Flash
Type" and then "Boot from ATARI CD-ROM" and finally "DISK BOOT FAILURE,
INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER". If I put Windows XP in the DVD ROM
drive, Windows says that it can not see the hard drive.
It also seems very slow to detect the hard drive in the BIOS.
I have even taken the DVD drives off the bus so that the only thing hooked
up is the hard drive, with no luck. The hard drive is strapped as master
and on the end of the IDE cable.
Help.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew E" <eckrichco@msn.com>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 9:16 PM
Subject: RE: Hard Drive Disappearing??

> Try putting the 2nd hd on the same ide cable as master,set jumpers to
> slave,put the dvd on 2nd ide cable as master.Then in xp,go to run,type:
> diskmgmt.msc in msc,L.click the slave drive,actions,all,select,make
drive
> active,close-out.Then R.click my computer,properties,advanced,virtual
memory,
> change button,set the slave as,let windows manage,click set 2X,set C:
drive as,
> let windows manage,set 2X,close-out,a restart will be prompted if set
right.Also,put
> the slave 1st on ide cable,xp will use as a page file,giving xp better
system performance.
> Once set as page file,xp will not let it disapear,guaranteed.

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