Hi!
A while back I upgraded my hard drive by adding a second drive. I moved the old primary to secondary and reinstalled WinXP Home on the new disk, keeping the old disk as a backup and as a source for copying files. All has been well for months and the problems occur when I try and remove the second disk - the BIOS doesn't recognize the primary as bootable or even as a disk - the boot sequence shows the first device as not available! It does boot off of Floppy or CDROM in this configuration, tho. I've set the jumpers on the primary to both master and CSEL, tried both the master and slave connectors on the ribbon cable (slave when CSEL, of course) and nothing seems to work. Reconnecting the second drive makes all the problems go away again.
My hardware is:
MB - MSI KT4VL
BIOS - AMI 07.00T 7/28/04 (A6712VMS V1.C 102104)
Primary HD - WDC WD800BB
Secondary HD - Maxtor D749X
Any and all help, suggestions, advice or criticism is welcomed.
TIA,
Dave
A while back I upgraded my hard drive by adding a second drive. I moved the old primary to secondary and reinstalled WinXP Home on the new disk, keeping the old disk as a backup and as a source for copying files. All has been well for months and the problems occur when I try and remove the second disk - the BIOS doesn't recognize the primary as bootable or even as a disk - the boot sequence shows the first device as not available! It does boot off of Floppy or CDROM in this configuration, tho. I've set the jumpers on the primary to both master and CSEL, tried both the master and slave connectors on the ribbon cable (slave when CSEL, of course) and nothing seems to work. Reconnecting the second drive makes all the problems go away again.
My hardware is:
MB - MSI KT4VL
BIOS - AMI 07.00T 7/28/04 (A6712VMS V1.C 102104)
Primary HD - WDC WD800BB
Secondary HD - Maxtor D749X
Any and all help, suggestions, advice or criticism is welcomed.
TIA,
Dave