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gavkiwi:

soo,  :dizzy: got a 120 GB hard drive that basically I am using to store my music, was in my old pc, put it in my 2 week old new pc yest, its set as a slave drive.

Hooked it into my new pc and got msg 'error loading OS', so removed the HD, and pc booted up properly without my music in it using the pc's own HD :soapbox:.

Soo does this secondary HD have to be empty/formatted for windows to accept it, I had just formatted it, put some music on there, and thought it would be recognized by windows relatively easily, unfortuantely that was not the case, any ideas?

thanks

Gav



ChadTower:


It means that you didn't do it right, probably.  You can set that drive to slave but that will likely only work if you set the OS loaded drive to be a master.  You may have it set to cable select.

gavkiwi:

yeah, im a bit of a noob when it comes to opening PC's, kind of feel like I am performing open heart surgey or something  :censored:, dont wanna mess anything up, so do i need to alter the jumper settings of the master, or goto the bios and alter some HD settings there, my know it all 'PC guru' Father in law says the drive needs to be formatted and clean to work with my new computer ( - my music), I beg to differ, please help me prove him wrong!  :cheers:

Gav

ChadTower:


You don't have to format the slave drive.  It certainly wouldn't cause an OS not found error.  That means it's trying to boot from something other than the master drive.

Take the master drive out and verify its jumper setting.  You probably don't have to change the BIOS but on some machines you may have to specify autodetect on all IDE channels.

fredster:

I had a problem with a new 80 GB HDD.  It wouldn't accept the Win98 OS. Something about the firmware.  I had to get a different brand HD.

What OS are you using?



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