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?

IIRC XP has to be the primary boot drive, set the 2k as a slave and you should be okay.
Let me rephrase that.. Microsoft says install the oldest first then the newest, but using the same OS's you are trying XP HAD to be the primary or it would fail much ike yours.

God fucking. I was hoping it wasn't that shit.

Now I NEED to find those fucking jumper caps.

Bah.

well ya dont HAVE to use those things... ive seen people wrap foil gum wrappers around em...

Amen to the bullshit jumper caps. I went to RadioShack and bought this really thin uninsulated copper wire that engineering students use for circuits101 (its like, wrapping wire or something like that)...

Anyway, I use that to bridge the connections where a jumper cap would.

and meanwhile I have about 100 jumpers sitting in my toolbox. sorry dude.

uhmm he is online to type this message can he not download the driver on the computer he is useing now?

If you did not screw with the old hard drive you shoud be able to configure the jumber cable back the the original way and get it to work....