Western Digital not being recognized?

[TylerBello]

Ok,
So ive got the new box set up...

I have just a 10 gig hooked up to run the OS...everything works just dandy.


When I hook up the slave 200 gig everything goes sour.When I boot it says "invalid partititon table"...or something to that effect.

Wont let me go any further,
What do I do?


Thanks,
Tyler

 

[Nodsu]

Are you familiar with the concept of master and slave drives?
Is that new drive ATA or SATA?
Where did you hook up that new drive?
Did you connect the cables right?

 

[TylerBello]

It is just an ATA.

Ive got the jumpers set correctly.

Ive got the drive hooked up on the same cable.

Yes I connected it right,I tried several times.


Thanks,
Tyler

 

[dgower2]

Set Boot Device Order in BIOS

Go into the BIOS and check the boot device priority. Maybe the second drive is set to 1 for some odd reason.

 

[TylerBello]

^^Thats what I thought too...so I checked and we're wrong :monkey:

So,I figured maybe it is giving the error because XP on original install was set to only have one drive,it wasnt a multiple drive install.

So I connected both drives,re-installed XP and my idea worked.


Thanks much,
Tyler

 

[dgower2]

Hooray! But...

I'm glad that reinstalling fixed your issue, but, please understand that you should not have to reinstall your OS to recognize a newly installed slave drive or continue booting successfully from the original. Something else was wrong.