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| 335114 | 2005-03-17 09:42:00 | Hi there! Few day ago I posted a thread that sys don't detect HDD. Actually what happens is this. Master HDD is Seagate 6GB, slave-Maxtor 40GB, Win XP home, Athlon XP 1,2GHz, Mob Aopen AK-73A. I needed this 40GB HDD as master. This Maxtor HDD was ok in older PC with Epox MOB ( 1998, model EP61BXA-M) as master, but in AK73 as master I get error message that disk might be corrapted, that is it is detected, but sys shuts Win down. Alternatives are to format, delete all in the Maxtor when it is a slave and put it as master with cleen install of WIN XP. Another idea is to upgrade BIOS. Any suggestions? Thanks |
taly (5956) | ||
| 335115 | 2005-03-17 09:53:00 | Which drive is the XP installed on? I would hazard a guess that you have two MBR's and boot files on each drive. Which drive is set in BIOS to boot first? If I read your post correctly, essentially what you have done by putting the drive on a newer board is tried to install an existing OS in a foreign environnment. Even if you get it it running you'll most liley have troubles. Have you deleted the old boards drivers and installed the new boards drivers? Try taking out all drives except the one you wan to boot to, including CD/DVD. I think it's more likely that Windows is throwing you the error rather than the BIOS, if that's what you're implying. If all else fails a BIOS flash might be helpfull. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 335116 | 2005-03-17 09:54:00 | Does the Maxtor 40 GB currently contain a bootable version of Windows that was installed on another PC? If so, the problem is likely to be that when booting with that drive as Master, it "force feeds" all the wrong motherboard drivers to the different hardware and chaos reigns. You should never boot a PC on a version of Windows that was installed on different hardware. It gets very confused, quite understandably. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 335117 | 2005-03-17 09:54:00 | -snap- | godfather (25) | ||
| 335118 | 2005-03-17 09:58:00 | let me get this right, you removed the maxtor out of a pc and installed it into the new one and are trying to boot off that drive. if the maxtor has an OS on it it will try to boot and fail due to the different hardware. back up data, format and reinstall. edit- darn it snapped by god again :thumbs: edit2- murrys post has now appeared......it must be getting late.... |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 335119 | 2005-03-17 23:19:00 | Hi Tweaky! Have done just so and it is all ok. There was an XP on that disk. Thanks. |
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