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| Thread ID: 41678 | 2004-01-19 04:14:00 | Installed 2nd HDD now cursor & video hangs momentarily | BaldEd (5136) | Press F1 |
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| 208388 | 2004-01-19 04:14:00 | After installing new 120GB HDD as slave and copying the contents of old 40GB HDD to new HDD the cursor (and video) appear to go to sleep for a second or so every few seconds. Graphics programs like Flight Simulator now pause whilst in flight before resuming. I am running WinME on a 1.4G Athon with 512MB. Never had this problem before installing the 2nd HDD. Any clues on how to fix? | BaldEd (5136) | ||
| 208389 | 2004-01-19 04:36:00 | How did you copy the contents over? Is DMA enabled on the new drive (Control Panel - System - Hardware - Device Manager - IDE controllers)? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 208390 | 2004-01-19 05:00:00 | Try booting into safe mode and looking at your devices. (right click "My Computer">properties>device manager) Under your drives you may see your old HDD listed, just remove it. It HAS to be done in safemode. Check what GF has suggested, then the above. Will be interested to hear back. |
Pheonix (280) | ||
| 208391 | 2004-01-19 22:15:00 | Thanx GD and Phoenix for your responses, More info that may be a clue. I installed the 2nd HDD (WD1200JB Special Edition -7200rpm) using WD's Data Lifeguard software tool. I created 4 partitions; D,E,F,G. One of the later options in Lifeguard was to copy from Drive C. Thinking that would be a good move to backup my C drive I did that - to drive D. So now I have, I guess, 2 full copies of WinME installed - 1 on C and 1 on D. Was that the correct thing to do? Both HDDs are on the same cable with the 7200rpm Barracuda 40GB master C drive at the end of the cable. I would like keep my old drive installed. |
BaldEd (5136) | ||
| 208392 | 2004-01-19 22:22:00 | Just checked - DMA is selected on both drives | BaldEd (5136) | ||
| 208393 | 2004-01-20 10:16:00 | I have no idea how to fix your problem but since you asked if you had done things correctly I will offer a suggestion on what I would have done. I would have removed the cable from your old hard drive, installed and plugged in the new one as master, partitioned and formatted it, installed Windows then connected the old one back to the cable as a slave. You could have then reinstalled all your programs and copied your data over to the new drive and used your old one as you wished, preferably reformatted to clear the old Windows installation. If you still have all your data on the old drive you could still perform this operation and have your setup working on a nice clean system. ;-) |
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