Linux 9 with the GRUB boot loader in my primary master hard drive and it boots fine. The problem is that to prevent the boot loader from messing up my WinXP installation, I made the linux hard drive the Master and the Windows XP hard drive the slave. But now...

dual boots Windows XP Home (master hard drive) and Windows XP Pro (slave drive). I removed the master drive to put it into another computer and would like the current pc to boot from the slave drive. Adter a lot of fiddling around I have wiped the first...

2003 to make a clone of my Master Drive (XP/SP2) in Slave position on IDE cable, to use as a live backup of the Master OS. Today I found these differences: Master was running 237 MB PF usage, when I booted to it as the operating system, while the Clone...

This "clone" is simply made the "C" drive by changing the jumper on the backup drive to "Master" and switching the cable so the end plug is now on the slave drive. Boot into what was the "slave" and it boots up exactly as the old "Master" drive. You can continue...

Trying to install first SATA hard drive. OS: windows XP SP3 I just got a new 500 GB Samsung SATA hard drive, which I plan on using for storage. My current hard drive is a 250 GB seagate IDE drive that has the OS on it. This is my first SATA drive. I also...

box running winxps. I installed PowerQuest on the first hd and performed partitions. When I tried to switch the master/slave drives. It can't find the boot table and can't find a valid partition table either. That's why I'm trying to use another software...

jumpered as Slave, I change only HDD-0 to HDD-1 in BIOS to boot to the Slave. The XP on the Slave operates just fine. But I want to plug that "Slave" drive in as the single drive, alone on the system, jumpered as "Single or "master", boot to it as HDD-0...

remove the hard drive from the system when I'm not using it. This has multiple benefits. This will not work on PCs with their own exclusive installation procedures looking for the onboard primary, master hard drive. Typically, a retail XP install Cd...

I read somewhere that one of your drives is the Master and the other is the Slave. Most places say the common setup pits the DVD-ROM as the Master and the Hard Drive as the Slave. Perfectly fine. But, how in the hell do I get to that point? The reason...

and the Hard Drive as the Slave. Perfectly fine. But, how in the hell do I get to that point? The reason why I put this in here is because if for some reason the computer is recognizing the hard drive correctly and that's causing my Flash Drive to not boot,...