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More info?)
You will not be up a creek.
Activate only affects that drive. It will not change the old drive.
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Ron Sommer
"Jay" <Jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FE3B3237-815B-4D19-8C01-86356ADA64D5@microsoft.com...
> Update:
>
> The drive is not active.
>
> If I "activate" it, and move it to the master position, and there wre
> problems, will I still be able to boot from the old drive by puting it
> back
> in the master position, or will I be up the creek? If I activate the
> drive,
> it will deactivate the origional, correct?
>
> "Jay" wrote:
>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> It's a 25o Gig OEM drive, shipped with no software. Both drives are now
>> running off of the IDE controller card I installed.
>>
>> I partitioned it into two 20 gig segments, the first as NFTS, the secone
>> as
>> FAT32, using XP computer management.
>>
>> The drive is showing up as disk 1 on the running machene, with my
>> origional
>> 8 gig drive as Disc 0 (System).
>>
>> Do I somehow need to set it up as a primamy drive before I change the
>> jumper, I'm confused.
>>
>> Can I just load XP onto it while it's a slave, then switch the drives
>> once
>> it's done?
>>
>> Thanks everyone, for all the help.
>>
>>
>> "Bill" wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 08:50:53 -0700, Jay
>> > <Jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > >OK Just tried again.
>> > >
>> > >put new drive in Master Position, no slave hooked up. Put in XP Disc
>> > >(tried
>> > >both, upgrade, and the one that came with another Dell).
>> > >
>> > >Went into Bios and told it to boot from CD Rom.
>> > >
>> > >At startup " syetem disk error, insert disc and press enter"
>> > >
>> > >What next?
>> > >
>> > >"Jay" wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> hello all,
>> > >>
>> > >> I installed a new 250 gig drive, with a ATA controller card, into my
>> > >> old
>> > >> computer. I got the new drive set up ad Disc 1, with 2 partitions
>> > >> for now.
>> > >>
>> > >> It's set up as the slave to the old drive.
>> > >>
>> > >> So now I need boot it up and reload XP.
>> > >>
>> > >> When I move the jumpers to the master position on this new drive,
>> > >> the
>> > >> computer tries to boot, and gives me a message to the effect that
>> > >> the HDD has
>> > >> no primary allocation, or something like that (sorry, it was late
>> > >> last night).
>> > >>
>> > >> What should my next steps be? Can I load XP onto it now as a slave,
>> > >> and
>> > >> them move it to the master position? I have all my data backed up on
>> > >> the
>> > >> second partition of this new drive.
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks alot, Jay
>> > fdisk? set primary as active?
>> > You didn't say but the new drives come with a start-up disk that
>> > should automagicly set up your new drive. It will also transfer the
>> > existing data from the old to the new drive. Your CD may be bad
>> > if it will not boot properly?
>> > Bill
>> > Atlanta
>> >