HDD 160 gig problem

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Installed new drive as slave and it was detected when pc booted.Also
appeared in device manager.
I shutdown the computer down but when It restarted it keeps telling me
there is a problem with my
hard drive and pc will not boot until I disconnect this large drive.Any
ideas pls.
I am running XP Pro on AMD computer.

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Primary drive = master or cable select
Secondary drive = slave or cable select

If you only had one drive before, and it is a Western Digital, it is
jumpered for "single" or cable select. Change it! Or, jumper the second
drive as cable select to match the primary drive.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)


"spud 2" <foods@eircom.net> wrote in message
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> Installed new drive as slave and it was detected when pc booted.Also
> appeared in device manager.
> I shutdown the computer down but when It restarted it keeps telling me
> there is a problem with my
> hard drive and pc will not boot until I disconnect this large drive.Any
> ideas pls.
> I am running XP Pro on AMD computer.
>
>

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

Maybe it died? Maybe the connectors aren't well seated? Try reconnecting
them, or trying in in a different machine, or take it to the store and
replace it.

spud 2 wrote:

> Installed new drive as slave and it was detected when pc booted.Also
> appeared in device manager.
> I shutdown the computer down but when It restarted it keeps telling me
> there is a problem with my
> hard drive and pc will not boot until I disconnect this large drive.Any
> ideas pls.
> I am running XP Pro on AMD computer.
>
>
>