crashing after adding old hard drive back up to new hard drive

Don · 07-02-2006, 07:31 PM

I am not very experienced at upgrading. on installing a new 250Gig H/drive as slave I saved a back up of my old hard drive to it then changed it to master and reset the back up. I had installed XP to the new hard drive which was working but I couldn't access my old files on the old drive as slave.
This doesn't seem to make any sense but maybe someone will understand waht I have done and be able to help me out.
I have my pc running with the old drive as master and can see the files on the slave. but when I make it master it just crashes before it boots up, also it is only reading 135gig of the 250. I have a jetway 601cf motherboard.
any help much apprec

iated

max12590 · 07-02-2006, 08:12 PM

Check the jumpers on both drives, assuming they are ATA.

Don · 07-02-2006, 08:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by max12590

Check the jumpers on both drives, assuming they are ATA.

I set up the jumpers to the correct pins, I find it strange that the new drive was booting up until I put the back up data from the original drive on it.
could windows be looking at the old drive boot sequence from the back up data. I am just a beginner/novice so my terminoligy may be lacking a lot.
thanks Don

07-02-2006, 07:31 PM	#1 (permalink) Top
Don Geek Trainee Join Date: Feb 2006 Gender: Posts: 2 Status: Offline	crashing after adding old hard drive back up to new hard drive I am not very experienced at upgrading. on installing a new 250Gig H/drive as slave I saved a back up of my old hard drive to it then changed it to master and reset the back up. I had installed XP to the new hard drive which was working but I couldn't access my old files on the old drive as slave. This doesn't seem to make any sense but maybe someone will understand waht I have done and be able to help me out. I have my pc running with the old drive as master and can see the files on the slave. but when I make it master it just crashes before it boots up, also it is only reading 135gig of the 250. I have a jetway 601cf motherboard. any help much apprec iated

07-02-2006, 08:12 PM	#2 (permalink) Top
max12590 Masterful Geek Join Date: Nov 2004 Age: 17 Male Posts: 1,016 Times Helpful: 76 Status: Offline My Computer	Check the jumpers on both drives, assuming they are ATA. __________________ In the words of a certain Battlefield 2 commander, "They're spawnin' like crazy at the Gas Station and then tryin' to Forrest Gump it down the Interstate."

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