Re: Old Hard Drive Takes Over New

This seems a bit strange and I'm not sure if I really understand the problem
but here goes.

The hard disk drive from which you want to boot configured as the primary
main. The ribbon data cable should be in the data0 (not data1) socket on
the motherboard. The hard disk drive should have the small connectors
inserted as in the plan somewhere on the hard disk drive to configure it as
a master. The other hard disk drive may be configured as primary slave,
secondary master or secondary slave - as long as there is only one other
device (CD or DVD) drive configured similarly.

If you get that right you are well on the way to solving the problem. If a
problem persists please re-post.

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions

"Wagz" <Wagz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6DE30C5F-EE12-4E6E-BE83-7467D5F18B81@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I was transferring files from my old hard drive to my new drive (both are
>on
> my new system), dragging files from one to the other. When I was
> transferring a bunch of music folders from my old hard drive to the new,
> it
> gave the usual "system file" message I've seen a million times before and
> I
> clicked on "yes to all" as always. However, this time when I rebooted my
> system, my old hard drive is now loaded up in Windows, all the settings
> are
> as if I was using the old system. I can see both drives, but I have
> absolutely no idea how to get the settings back.
>
> A system restore won't work because it said it was not monitoring the old
> hard drive. Apologies but I have absolutely no idea where I should have
> posted this, I've never even heard of this problem before. Thanks for any
> help!


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