Computer wont recognize hard drive to boot up with but recognizes it as a secondary ?

[kermalou]

i had two computers a dimension 8200 and a poweredge 400sc, for some reason i installed xp on the server and 2003 server on the dimension. i came to swap the hard drives and the transfer of hard drivees from the XP (2003) machine to the dimension went fine.

the other way from the dimension --> server, the new computer doesn't register the drive to start up with. it is as if the hard drive isn't there. but if i make it a slave on another machine i can see everything fine.

i am out of ideas here, any of you guys hava any help?

 

[Navid]

Did you enter BIOS and added the hard drive to the boot priority list ahead of other drives?

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: Navid
Did you enter BIOS and added the hard drive to the boot priority list ahead of other drives?

Good point - but it should go from one to the other until it finds a good boot drive.

It may be a conflict between cable select and a jumpered Master/Slave. Try pure CS and put the ribbon connectors on the proper drive. (Blue to Mobo, Black to Master and Gray to Slave - and set all drive jumpers to CS.)