Trouble adding 2nd Hardrive with WinXP

[Mattlock2]

I just installed WinXP Prof on my system. Afterwards I installed my 2nd Hardrive (on the secondary IDE connector) and now when XP boots up it freezes up and doesnt get past the splash screen. Any suggestions?

Mattlock

 

[Mattlock2]

My main HD is NTFS and the second one that has my old data is FAT32. Does that mean I cant simply plug in the connector and have access?

Mattlock

 

[BFG10K]

Try going into the BIOS first and see if the system recognises your second drive.

Also check that the IDE cables are correctly plugged in and are in the right way. Check the jumpering on all the drives too.

The file system on the drives is irrelevant.

 

[MortaniuS]

Are both drives showing up during post?

Do you have Plug and play OS selected in your bios? If so go ahead and set that secondary drive to NONE instead of AUTO. Now the drive shouldnt get detected at the bios level and it will boot into windows before it detects that second drive. Once widnwos is up it will install the hardrive via plug n play.

See if that helps Ive had to do that a couple of times with picky systems.

 

[Mattlock2]

Thanks I'll try that.

Mattlock

 

[Mattlock2]

My Abit Board uses a 3rd Party controller "HotRod66". During boot both drives are recognized but it still freezes on the splash screen. If I unplug the 2nd, it boots fine.

The HotRodd menu does not give me the option of "auto detect" or "none". Currently the 2nd is set as "non-booting" and the "UDMA" setting is a 4 (same as other drive). Should this be changed some another number?

Here's another thought:

My Enermax 250watt ran everthing fine in Win98. Could it be that XP requires more power? I tried upping my voltage from 1.7 (default) to 1.80 without success. Affraid to go much higher. The sympton does appear to be very similar to my overclocking symptons (ie freezing at spalshscreen).

When I had win98 I had my PIII 700 oce'd to 980 with no problems and 2 harddrives. When I tried to go to 1050 I had the same sympton I am seeing now.

Do you think it would be a power issue now that XP is installed?

thanks,
Mattlock

 

[PfcJs]

Hi!

I just wondering if you are working with any partitioned drives. I know that the drive letters can get messed up when you add a new drive to a system which has partitioned drives. This can cause problems with XP expecially if XP was not installed on C:.

If this is the case, a possible work around is to reinstall XP with your setup CD. When it boots up first choose install and not repair. When it detects your existing XP installation, then choose repair. Reinstalling XP this way should preserve all your settings in XP.

Good luck!

PfcJs

 

[Mattlock2]

I'll try that. By the way, would it make any difference If I connected the 2nd HD connector after the computer booted? Or is that dangerous or pointless.

thanks,

mattlock

 

[Mattlock2]

I dont know if I mentioned that my 2nd HD already has data on it with fat32 format. Not sure if that matters.

Mattlock