disconecting hard drive

[Guest]

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I have 3 hard drives, I'm trying to disconnect one to install a dvd drive. I have cleared the drive, hidden it and no matter what i try widows will not boot after i disconnect it.

 

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Maybe?!?! but no its not

"Hwc3" wrote:

> I have 3 hard drives, I'm trying to disconnect one to install a dvd drive. I have cleared the drive, hidden it and no matter what i try widows will not boot after i disconnect it.

 

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Maybe because that is the disk that Windows is installed
on???



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"Hwc3" <Hwc3@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| I have 3 hard drives, I'm trying to disconnect one to
install a dvd drive. I have cleared the drive, hidden it and
no matter what i try widows will not boot after i disconnect
it.

 

[Jax]

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Jumpers??

JAX

"Hwc3" <Hwc3@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Maybe?!?! but no its not
>
> "Hwc3" wrote:
>
> > I have 3 hard drives, I'm trying to disconnect one to install a dvd
drive. I have cleared the drive, hidden it and no matter what i try widows
will not boot after i disconnect it.

 

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The drive I disconnect is the slave off the xp drive, (e C: contains 98 and I assume the MBR so the jumpers dont seem to apply ( E: is the first partition on the drive, Drive is set to master

"JAX" wrote:

> Jumpers??
>
> JAX
>
> "Hwc3" <Hwc3@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2D779842-D845-4A75-8E78-537F00617BD9@microsoft.com...
> > Maybe?!?! but no its not
> >
> > "Hwc3" wrote:
> >
> > > I have 3 hard drives, I'm trying to disconnect one to install a dvd
> drive. I have cleared the drive, hidden it and no matter what i try widows
> will not boot after i disconnect it.
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

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Jumpers do apply. If your main drive was set to master, and now there is no
slave, the drive has nothing to be master to. It now must be configured as a
single drive (per Western Digital).

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"Hwc3" <Hwc3@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> The drive I disconnect is the slave off the xp drive, (e C: contains 98
> and I assume the MBR so the jumpers dont seem to apply ( E: is the first
> partition on the drive, Drive is set to master
>
> "JAX" wrote:
>
>> Jumpers??
>>
>> JAX
>>
>> "Hwc3" <Hwc3@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:2D779842-D845-4A75-8E78-537F00617BD9@microsoft.com...
>> > Maybe?!?! but no its not
>> >
>> > "Hwc3" wrote:
>> >
>> > > I have 3 hard drives, I'm trying to disconnect one to install a dvd
>> drive. I have cleared the drive, hidden it and no matter what i try
>> widows
>> will not boot after i disconnect it.
>>
>>
>>

 

[Guest]

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You are not completely clear in you drive arrangement, I
don't understand...you have a dual boot system with W98 and
XP. You have three physical hard drives and want to remove
one, but when you do the system won't boot.

If the drive contains the Master boot record and you remove
it , it is no wonder that the computer won't boot.

You might show a table with the files you have on which
drive, that will help us out here help you.

If you want to keep the dual boot, you must have a master
boot record that points to the OS.

If you have Partition Magic or some other boot loader repair
tools you can fix it.

See the MSKB for "dual boot" and "remove dual boot" and
"repair MBR"


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"Hwc3" <Hwc3@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:58808B08-2CAC-4EDB-8D60-D8C442E79F0B@microsoft.com...
| The drive I disconnect is the slave off the xp drive,
(e C: contains 98 and I assume the MBR so the jumpers
dont seem to apply ( E: is the first partition on the drive,
Drive is set to master
|
| "JAX" wrote:
|
| > Jumpers??
| >
| > JAX
| >
| > "Hwc3" <Hwc3@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
| >
news:2D779842-D845-4A75-8E78-537F00617BD9@microsoft.com...
| > > Maybe?!?! but no its not
| > >
| > > "Hwc3" wrote:
| > >
| > > > I have 3 hard drives, I'm trying to disconnect one
to install a dvd
| > drive. I have cleared the drive, hidden it and no matter
what i try widows
| > will not boot after i disconnect it.
| >
| >
| >

 

[Guest]

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This is the the layout
Disk one
C: win98 (primary)
F:
disk 2
Unallocated (drive To be ReMoved, former contents copied to disk 4 and formatted)
Disk 3
E: XP (primary)
J:
Disk 4 attached by rocket head to sata
D:
H:
I:
L: new volumn

Thanks for your help

 

[Guest]

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Is this what it was before you began changing the setup?
Were W98 and XP the only OS installed? I presume that W98
was installed first and that disk 1 was the original hard
drive, is that correct?
I presume you installed XP as an upgrade and did a dual
boot, installing XP to disk 2, is that correct?
How was disk 3 setup and XP installed? When did you do
this?
Disk 4 is a SATA drive connected using a PCI card interface,
is this correct?
You don't have SATA support until Windows boots, is that
correct?

Have you considered copying all your DATA files to the SATA
drive. Then do a clean install of the Windows 98 OS on the
C drive. Then install your XP OS as a dual boot, selecting F
or E as the drive. Then you would reinstall your
applications to each OS. You could point XP to disk 4 for
My Documents using the just the XP built-in functions (right
click on My Computer/properties, move) but you'll need
TweakUI or similar to redirect data storage for W98.

The simple fact is that something needed to boot the
computer was installed on disk 2 OR you may be
misidentifying the drive when you try to remove it
physically.

You might try booting step by step to see where it is
failing, try it with all drives and then with the drive
removed to see what happens. Try logging the boot too.

That is about the limit of my hints and suggestions.


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"Hwc3" <Hwc3@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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|
|
| This is the the layout
| Disk one
| C: win98 (primary)
| F:
| disk 2
| Unallocated (drive To be ReMoved, former contents copied
to disk 4 and formatted)
| Disk 3
| E: XP (primary)
| J:
| Disk 4 attached by rocket head to sata
| D:
| H:
| I:
| L: new volumn
|
| Thanks for your help

 

[norm]

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A little more info would be helpful. Which of the 3 are you trying to
disconnect? Where is on the 2 ide cables you have? What is the
manufacturer of the 3 drives, jumpers vary among makers. Did you try to
boot both before and after installing the dvd drive?

"Hwc3" <Hwc3@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E6682C70-7EA9-4384-B041-7212AB090E62@microsoft.com...
> I have 3 hard drives, I'm trying to disconnect one to install a dvd drive.
I have cleared the drive, hidden it and no matter what i try widows will not
boot after i disconnect it.
>