Hard drive problem in new computer

[FictiousWill]

I had two hard drives in one computer. One was a master (20gigs), one was a slave (80gigs).

I recently constructed a new computer with a new motherboard, chip, ram, etc - and I hooked the hard drives into it. I set them as before; master and slave.

I expected the os to load and assimilate its new environment, that I would essentially have the same computer, only faster and with more memory.

When I try to boot up, though - I get a windows stop error and can't proceed.

What could be causing this problem? - and more importantly, how can I get these hard drives to work?

Thanks,

Will

 

[dawdler]

Define stop... Any errors? Exactly where? Etc and so on. Need system specs.

I also tried to use a 20gb seagate with a 80gb WD in my new computer, the 80gb didnt work for my 8RDA+ board... Refused to post. Something wrong in the timing.

 

[FictiousWill]

maxtor 20 gig hd (master)
maxtor 80 gig hd (slave)
Asus a7v600 motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 2800+
geforce4 ti 4200
1024 mb ddr pc2700

The windows "stop" screen is a feature of windows xp (i think) and it comes up and says that windows was not started because of a drive reading error and it won't boot any further in order to preserve the files on the disk. It gives me a memory address, too - the begining of the drive I think.

I do have another 3 gig hard drive that I can clear. Do you think I'd have any problems if I installed it alone into the computer, put windows xp on it, then added these two as slaves?

 

[SidewinderX]

Have you installed WinXp properly?

 

[Xtasy0]

you can not simply swap the drives and expect it to boot up, windows nt/2000/xp are picky about hardware, you just cant swap the HD to a different motherboard and expect it to boot, you'll need to install overtop, or format and do a fresh install, i'm not totally sure a reinstall overtop will work.

 

[Delicious Bass]

Its probably from your drivers and the previous format. If your parts were on a different MoBo they formatted themselves for that mobo, not this one. So, just reformat the OS one, the slave should be ok

 

[FictiousWill]

I've got the drives working - thanks for your help. I orverwrote the os on the master drive, and everything is now ok.

 

[TrueWeltall]

Originally posted by Xtasy0
you can not simply swap the drives and expect it to boot up, windows nt/2000/xp are picky about hardware, you just cant swap the HD to a different motherboard and expect it to boot, you'll need to install overtop, or format and do a fresh install, i'm not totally sure a reinstall overtop will work.

You know thats funny because i swapped a harddrive from a dell 8100 with windows 2000 right into my old computer and it worked fine.

 

[Noodlygod]

Odd indeed. I would say normally 90% of the time it doesn't work with 2k/XP. I've seen it work twice and fail sooooo many more times that whenever someone asks me if they should back there stuff up I tell them yes, because we're probably going to have to do a re-install.

 

[Xtasy0]

Originally posted by TrueWeltall
You know thats funny because i swapped a harddrive from a dell 8100 with windows 2000 right into my old computer and it worked fine.

well you're lucky occasionally it does work, but as i said, no one should expect it to work, because most of the time it wont.

plus, when you move the drive to a new foundation(mobo) its always a good idea to format and do a fresh install anyways.