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Trouble with Slave Drive in Windows XP
Thanks for all the help. The culprit was GoBack. I booted to my old hard drive (which did contain valuable data), disabled GoBack & rebooted. After sucessful boot to Win98 w/o GoBack, shut down and made old drive slave, and re-connected the new, Win XP drive. The old drive then was in...- air33
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Trouble with Slave Drive in Windows XP
Updated PC from Windows 98SE to XP by purchasing XP Home & a new hard drive. Installed the new hard drive as master, installed old HD as slave (note: the old HD was partitioned via. FDISK into two drives of equal size 10GB). CMOS saw everything O.K. and installed XP & all Win Updates. Cannot...- air33
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