harddrive and other probs

hey!
i just bought myself some new computer gear. and i have run into some problems...
before i had 1 comp with 2 harddrives and also 2 system installations. seperated with bootmagic.. works fine!
now i want to remove the master harddrive and put it into the new computer. And use the other harddrive as an master in the first computer. now it starts to ***** up.
I remove the master harddisk and change the jumpers(is that the word?) to master on the slave hd. this should work! but it wont. now when i start up the computer it says "system not found ". how come?

ok i did some tests to try to figure out what the problem was. i inserted an win xp cd into the comp and it found the hd. with 2 partitions(remember still just one harddrive, the one who was slave before) on one partition it said "store ". and that was the name of that partition and it had the letter C:. and the other partition had the letter E:. But it said that this partition was deaktivated... huh!? i have never deaktivated that partition. and the E partition should not be called E it should be called C and vise versa. WHAT THE?!

and also i reinserted and changed the jumpers back to how it was before i started messing around and removing HD:s. Now bootmagic starts and both the systems works perfectly... Im stunned!

anyone who knows the reason to this problem? something that i have to change in bios? anything!

 

When you had the two hard drives together and used boot magic did you have boot magic set to hide one windows system from the other. If so, did you unhide it with boot magic before seperating the two? If not, that's most likely the problem. You could set things up the way they were and then use boot magic to straighten it out. Don't know how else you go about unhiding a partition. Anybody else?

 

One more thought. If you also have partition magic you could probably leave the drive in the computer it's now in and boot from the partition magic floppy discs (if you made them) and use it to unhide the partition.

 

And another thought.

I had this to happen to me awhile back, while trying to make it a temporary master, when I was installing onto my slave.

I didn't have the plastic piece exactly in the right jumper space for being a master. I had it over one set of pins too far. I didn't have a diagram for that particular hard drive, so I was guessing at which set of pins to put it on. Had to change it. Could that possibly be the problem.

 

Just a try...

Is your new master disk really bootable? If you somehow damage your MBR (Master Boot Record) you can restore it by calling fdisk with /MBR option.

Note: I know nothing about bootmagic so this post could be totally off-topic... Sorry.