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MooseMan3000 · 06-15-2004, 05:23 PM

Yeah. Totally fucked.

So I got my new round cables in the mail yesterday, and I had a harddrive that I had been meaning to install, and I wanted to get rid of Win2k and put on XP. So I decided to do it all in one go. (Smooth move, ace)

Anyhow. I put in the new harddisk as a slave to my old one, formatted it, and installed WinXP Home on that. When I start, setup asks me which OS to boot to, XP Home or 2k Pro. I can choose XP and boot to the second hard drive with no problems.

The only problem is, I can no longer boot to the first hard drive with 2k on it. I can ONLY boot to XP. And for some reason, XP can't connect to the internet.

When I try to boot Win2k, it gives me this error (paraphrased...): "Cannot boot to specified IDE drive. There is a hardware configuration error."

I tried switching the boot order, I tried changing cables, I tried removing the new hard drive, I tried setting the old drive as a single without the new one, I tried switching out the new cables back for the old ones... the only thing I haven't tried yet is setting the new drive as the master with the old one as a slave... but that's only because I can't find another jumper. I need to find the box with my motherboard documentation in it, because then I'll have ethernet drivers and jumpers to play with that some more.

So, can anyone see what I did wrong? I mean, I see one thing... doing it all at once. But other than that, I mean. Any ideas?

06-15-2004, 05:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
MooseMan3000 wouldn't mind being a ninja. Location: Maine, the Other White State.	Oops, I broke it. Yeah. Totally fucked. So I got my new round cables in the mail yesterday, and I had a harddrive that I had been meaning to install, and I wanted to get rid of Win2k and put on XP. So I decided to do it all in one go. (Smooth move, ace) Anyhow. I put in the new harddisk as a slave to my old one, formatted it, and installed WinXP Home on that. When I start, setup asks me which OS to boot to, XP Home or 2k Pro. I can choose XP and boot to the second hard drive with no problems. The only problem is, I can no longer boot to the first hard drive with 2k on it. I can ONLY boot to XP. And for some reason, XP can't connect to the internet. When I try to boot Win2k, it gives me this error (paraphrased...): "Cannot boot to specified IDE drive. There is a hardware configuration error." I tried switching the boot order, I tried changing cables, I tried removing the new hard drive, I tried setting the old drive as a single without the new one, I tried switching out the new cables back for the old ones... the only thing I haven't tried yet is setting the new drive as the master with the old one as a slave... but that's only because I can't find another jumper. I need to find the box with my motherboard documentation in it, because then I'll have ethernet drivers and jumpers to play with that some more. So, can anyone see what I did wrong? I mean, I see one thing... doing it all at once. But other than that, I mean. Any ideas?