hardware & OS issue with XP

[gandalf361]

I have a IBM 60GB 60GXP 7200RPM & a Western Digital 10.2GB HDD. I have the 60GB set as the master with XP Pro on installed on the first 30GB partition, and the second 30 gb partition has nothing. On the Western Digital I have it set as the slave with Win98SE installed.

Here's the problem: :| :| :|

When I try to boot into XP Pro, my computer gives my an error saying that there is something wrong with my computer. It says check your hard disk for errors and/or corruption. Then remove any newly added hard drivers I.E. my Western Digital 10GB.

Then is has this error:
***STOP:0x0000007B (0xF7ABF640, 0X00000034, 0X00000000, 0X00000000)

But when I disconnect the Western Digital from the IDE cable and just boot with the IBM, XP boots fine, no problems whatsoever.

And if I boot with just the Western Digital Win98se works fine. The only thing I haven't tried is to make Win98SE my master and XP my slave, but I don't want to do that, because i primarialy boot into XP. I only use 98SE for older games such as Tomb Raider.

Anybody got any ideas of what is happening?

 

[gandalf361]

any suggestions?

 

[Theslowone]

Try putting the wd on a different ide and as master, or swapping it to cable select instead of slave.

 

[SaturnX]

Check the jumpers on the Western Digital drive, make sure its set to slave, not Single, or Master, doing so may cause problems. It seems this is the case since you can boot off the WD drive, as well as the IBM individually. So yeah, double the jumpers on both the HDDs, IBM should be Master, WD should be Slave.

--Mark

 

[gandalf361]

OK I tried connecting the western digital as master and the IBM as slave, and when I try to boot into XP it gives me the same error. What now?