Please help me!! New HD installation

by **Damian** on Mon Jan 28, 2002 7:34 pm

Ok, I haven't had to do this for a while so either follow my advice or don't [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Enter the registry (run:regedit)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >

SYSTEM >

DISK >

Enter a new value for the disk

\Device\Harddisk2\Partition 1

+ The new drive letter of course.

[ 28 January 2002: Message edited by: DamianMoran ]

by **Silverhaze** on Mon Jan 28, 2002 9:08 pm

Thanks for the info Damian but I did eventually get it running myself.

Ha that pathetic software I downloaded didnt help a bit. It wanted to make the drive the C: even though it showed it on the screen right there as being the slave. I couldnt find any way of changing it so I had to create the drive using Fdisk.

Then I loaded up Windows and found it had now alloated a drive letter. I clicked on the drive and it told me it was not functioning properly.

I formatted it using the windows format software, ran a quick scan disk to make sure everything was ok and that was it.

Drive now functioning properly. Now all I need to do is make my old D: a secondary master for a while and ship all the old stuff over to the new drive.

by **ivwshane** on Mon Jan 28, 2002 10:47 pm

Yes with new drives you have to format first. Switching your OS's over to another drive will be harder than you think, I suggest you get norton ghost (from e of course) and create a image and then image it to your new system.

by **adidas** on Tue Jan 29, 2002 3:03 am

I use the MaxBlast software that came with my Maxtor drive, it's a cinch to use and fits on a floppy [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

by **Silverhaze** on Tue Jan 29, 2002 5:10 am

Adidas? Were you setting that drive up as a primary or a slave?

by **Silverhaze** on Tue Jan 29, 2002 6:38 am

Hey gang.

I bought a new HD today and have had nothing but problems.

I eventually got it running by changing the jumper positions to make sure it runs as a slave like my old second drive did.

Problem is that when I start windows the damn drive has no drive letter allocated to it.

I'm currently downloading some software from the company that supposedly makes it easy to install but I'm not getting my hopes up.

System options show the drive as working fine but it just has no letter.

Can anybody help me??

by **ivwshane** on Tue Jan 29, 2002 7:42 am

It all depends on where you have it on the cable, the end of the cable is for the primary drive and of course the other is for the slave. And of course the jumpers have to be set accordingly.

by **adidas** on Tue Jan 29, 2002 5:20 pm

On my first IDE, my burner is the master, and my HD is the slave - don't ask

On my second IDE I just have my regular CD ROM

by **Silverhaze** on Wed Jan 30, 2002 6:27 am

On my IDE1 I have 2 HDs. On IDE2 I have my CDROM which doesnt work anyway so I'm gonna swap that over to my old D: so I can retrieve the files I left on there.

Secondary master here I come. Shouldnt be much bother since its already formatted.

by **were** on Fri Feb 01, 2002 9:20 pm

makes ure the connectors are properly fit, otherwise, you might get funny symbols like i had with the ram.shit.I thought my HD was infected....

by **Silverhaze** on Fri Feb 01, 2002 11:05 pm

Yeah I made sure it was well slotted in there. I've made that mistake before too.