2nd HD won't boot

[Guest]

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I just bought a new 160 gig drive, and I have hooked the
old one up to copy file to new drive 3 times. every timeI
do and restart it give me a error the a I need a boot
disk. no longer leting me run windows off the new drive i
have to reinstall XP.

 

[Duh]

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What application did you use the copy the old to the new?

"jspfunk" <jspfunk@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1c9b701c42256$ee54e750$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I just bought a new 160 gig drive, and I have hooked the
> old one up to copy file to new drive 3 times. every timeI
> do and restart it give me a error the a I need a boot
> disk. no longer leting me run windows off the new drive i
> have to reinstall XP.
>

 

[Mike]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Check the jumpers on the back of the drive.. if you installed the drive on
IDE 1, you will need to set it as a slave to your boot drive..

IMO, you should install the new drive as master, removing any other HDD.. do
a clean install of XP and the programs you want.. install the old boot drive
as a slave.. copy anything across that you want to save (NOT programs or any
of the Windows files).. import your address book and e-mail messages from
the old boot disk

When you are sure that everything is as you want it, reformat the old boot
drive and then use it as a backup drive for your important files..


"jspfunk" <jspfunk@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1c9b701c42256$ee54e750$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I just bought a new 160 gig drive, and I have hooked the
> old one up to copy file to new drive 3 times. every timeI
> do and restart it give me a error the a I need a boot
> disk. no longer leting me run windows off the new drive i
> have to reinstall XP.