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  1. ando42

    New primary drive sometimes won't start

    Also the problem only surfaces when I power down the system. If I do a warm reboot (i.e select restart from the turn off computer menu) it works just fine.
  2. ando42

    New primary drive sometimes won't start

    Thanks for the response garebo. I did everything you said. I didn't hook up my old slave drive until the new one was humming with XP. I did the full format in NTFS. My problem is more of the primary not starting up perhaps it is a bad drive but I was wondering if it could be something else
  3. ando42

    New primary drive sometimes won't start

    I have an old Dell Dimension 4100 bought back in June 2001. 1.0 GHz 384 Mb RAM and a 40 Gb Hard Drive with Windows ME. I recently bought a Western Digital 160 Gb Hard Drive and Windows XP home. I installed the new drive as the master drive and loaded XP. The old 40 gig drive is the slave...

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