2nd hd

MxN

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Right i brought a new hd not long ago and replaced it with my old one, now im trying to fit the old hd aswell, i set the new one i brought to master and the old one too slave, but when i start pc it would go too the PCI listing...
then wont advance from there,
anyone have any idea's?:<
 

DocWolfe

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Mxn said:
Right i brought a new hd not long ago and replaced it with my old one, now im trying to fit the old hd aswell, i set the new one i brought to master and the old one too slave, but when i start pc it would go too the PCI listing...
then wont advance from there,
anyone have any idea's?:<

I'm guessing the old one has your windows installation on? Since it was the master before you should set it to be master otherwise you will have to do some fiddling in bios.
 

MxN

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DocWolfe said:
I'm guessing the old one has your windows installation on? Since it was the master before you should set it to be master otherwise you will have to do some fiddling in bios.
hmm i removed this hd im using now replaced it with old one and it still goes to PCI shit, think ill just try buy a new 2nd hd :/
 

Neffneff

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my guess would be you plugged the IDE leads in the wrong way round on either the motherboard or one or both of the hdds.
 

MxN

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Neffneff said:
my guess would be you plugged the IDE leads in the wrong way round on either the motherboard or one or both of the hdds.
tried a few ways
 

Belgerath

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Got to your boot up options and set it only to boot from the HD u want it 2, that might sort it :)
 

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