Re: Can't boot WinXP Pro SP2 after plugging in additional (old) ha

MCE is Media Center Edition, it's the operating system that's this forum
discusses. You should have received setup disks with your PC, or sometimes
you need to create your own when you first get the system. If you don't have
them, try using some other setup disks (of any OS for that matter), just to
see if the system can boot, but *don't* reinstall anything. If you can't
boot at all, even from a CD, then you may have some type of hardware problem
or may have inadvertently hooked up something wrong (or not at all) when
changing your system around.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), Florida

"J" <J@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What is the MCE disk and how can I get a copy of it? (hyperlinks would be
a
big help) What is the MBR?

"jolt" wrote:

Try to boot the system from the MCE disk to see if the system can boot at
all. If the existing drive is discovered properly in the bios it is
possible
that the existing drive was damaged when you installed the old drive. If
it
boots from the MCE disk you could rewrite the MBR to rule that out as the
cause.


"J" <J@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I no longer want to use the old drive (which I suspect doesn't work and
which
I will destroy after this dilemma is fixed), so how to fix this problem
with
this knowledge? The computer won't boot even after I remove the old
drive
and
set everything as before.

Help.

"jolt" wrote:


"J" <J@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all...please help!

After plugging in an old harddrive (to see if it was working) to my
current
computer thru the IDE cable shared with the existing harddrive, my
computer
no longer boots up WinXP. All I get after the American Megatrends
bios
startup is a dark screen with a flashing cursor. The bios is working
properly: it's detecting my harddrive and cd&dvd players, I'm able
to
access
the bios and such...

Also note that I remove the jumpers on the old harddrive when I
plugged
it
in.

Please help me. Tell what to do, provide links or addresses, etc.
Thanks in advance.

JH

The old drive needs to be pinned as Slave or CS (cable select)
dependent
on
how the other drive is pinned. Also if the other drive is setup CS you
need
to hook up the cable correctly.








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