Resolved Additional Hard Drive

Have added additional hard drive as 'Slave', partitioned new HD, now I want it as 'Master' have changed jumpers to have new HD as master and old HD as slave, but I want to have the new HD master to be the start up drive with the current programme, and I also want to use the 'Slave' as a seperate file/photo store that only receives input/delete from me, not automaticaly from the master drive.
Spanner

 

Morning Steve, just managed to get back to you, tried installing XP to new drive, it asked for Service pack 2 disc, inserted authentic disc in drive kept getting request to insert service pack 2 or press F3, repeated this 3 or 4 times so have not got passed 'set-up'. Spanner

 

Steve,
Windows XP is a retail proper cd with authentic license, it upgraded ok from 98se on the main drive before, the Service Pack 2 is also an authentic original, in proper case etc. I have reinstalled the XP before when I had trouble with my ISP and decided to uninstall and start again. this is only happening because I want to install XP on a larger drive, now jumpered as 'master' and other drive as slave, no jumpers.

 

Have you ever gone down a road that ends, and
you have to backup?

I have read this thread several times and decide
my advice is to set the jumper settings to "CS" or
"Cable Select" on both hard drives.

If it does not work on the first try, then swap the
ribbon cables that connect to the hard drives and
try again.

If it does not work on the second try, then have
done something wrong and your second hard drive
does not have the proper boot sector information
to start Windows.

 

Thanks Shrink,I think the analogy of a circular road, or a road in a circle,going nowhere, is closer. I will try your suggestion, having read something simular in one of my books. let you know soon. thanks.Spanner

 

Thanks again Shrink, changed jumpers to both on CS, works a treat,but why?, PC is a lot faster too,marked this as solved. Thanks again, Spanner.