New HDD not booting

[chastity]

Well that a little odd that with the old hard drive set as slave that it boots to it, I've never had that problem. Well since you can't seem to have the old drive hooked up and beable to boot from the new one, so once your sure everything is good to go with the new one put the old one in another system and format it.

 

[Powerchordpunk]

you can select in my bios to boot from either master or any slave drive.

 

[chastity]

Ok I forgot about that setting but according to what you posted you said that when the old hard drive and the new are hooked up at the sametime that it still boots off the old harddrive instead of the new one or at least thats the way I read it. So you should have your BIOS set to boot from the primary master hard drive and if you can then duoble check and make sure there is nothing that you want on the old drive then under administrative tools, computer management, disk management, and then find the disk you want to format and format it using Windows XP disk tools

 

[Powerchordpunk]

it will boot from slave (old drive) but won't boot from new drive when its set to master and both drives are in at the same time. To boot with both in, I can only go into bios and set it to boot from slave, as booting from master says "no operating system found." Bios autoconfigures to boot from master, but i have to change it to slave when both drives are in.

 

[chastity]

Well it sounds like your MBR is not on the new drive. As to how to fix it I'm not sure. Actually I know of a way don't I'm not sure if its what you should be doing, will have to do a little research on this. Well you could always reformat the new drive and retry ghosting it.

 

[Powerchordpunk]

ok problem solved y'all. just had to boot with new drive alone. I guess it changed some settings. (changed the drive to c) Then all I had to do was put the old drive back in and it works fine. Thanks for everyones help.

 

[chastity]

Glad to hear you got your problem fixed Powerchordpunk. Glad I was able to give you some ideas as to try. Enjoy your new larger harddrive

 

[gonaads]

Geeez, That simple... Just use one HDD. Glad to hear it Powerchordpunk.