Hard Drive Booting Problems

[GhandiInstinct]

Ok I need major help, if you will. I got a 2001 HP desktop. I've been using a WD 60gb 7200 HDD for a while now and everything has been fine. But now that I bought a new wd special edition 8mb cache 7200 80gb hdd I cant boot. The 80gb already has xp pro on it and I've used it on another computer. But now when I boot with it, it gets to a black screen with a dash on the top left blinking endlessly.

I went into BIOS and it recognizes the drive. What could be the problem?

EDIT: It's ATA-100 so it's compliant with the board.

 

[DarkSarkas]

I would bet that your problem is the low-level motherboard/ata drivers already installed and initialized in the install of winXP on your 80gig drive. Try reinstalling windows on it.

 

[Regs]

It's likely because of your Jumper settings. Make sure the HDD that has the OS is on master settings and the bios has that HDD selected to boot it up. The jumpers are in back of the hard drive. M stands for master. S stands for slave, and CS stands for cable select. Set your 60 Gig on slave and the 80 gig on master. Then go under boot options in the bios and make sure the 80 GIG hdd is selected for boot.

Even so, like the member above stated. You would likely want to reformat the older hard drive after you have it up and running.

Once XP boots up for the first time, expect it to try to take some time to locate all of your hardware again. Then you would have to reinstall every device driver like you did on the older 60 GIG Hdd.

 

[GhandiInstinct]

Thanks for the advice guys. I guess repairing the 80gb drive so that the master boot record is recovered should do the trick. As for jumpers, I've tried them all, still it won't recognize the drive. I made the 60gb master and 80gb slave so that I could at least do something with the computer. Now I go and find my xp pro disk to repair.