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Originally posted by Relorian

I also tried conneecting a Slave Win98 formatted 10 gig drive. Not only is this a Non booting drive, but its set to slave already... but for some reason it tries to boot off the drive.



If this is still true then I don't see how it could have anything to do ...

You should look in the new hard drive manual for other jumper settings. Sometimes older motherboards will require that you have special jumper settings on the HDD to get it to be recognized. Is it actually finding the new drive when it boots off the second drive?

When it boots off the compaq drive does it assign it as the C: drive or is it booting off the D: drive when it does this?

If you go into the BIOS setup with both drives installed which one is it showing as the master there?

If it is making the compaq drive the C: drive or showing it as the ...

Try switching where each drive is connected on the IDE cable if you are using the same channel.

Double check the bios and verify the order that it is using for the boot device. The BIOS is the only thing I would think would be able to do that.

Building a computer is pretty easy now days but a lot of people wouldn't have a clue where to start still.



I work with some pretty clueless people. I get to talk to burger king managers about their computers. I get to hear from some of the craziest people in the world.

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Uhh nevermind, link wasn't working.

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