2nd Hard drive Crashes Windows 2K Continously

[tennex]

Good day,
I recently bought a 2nd hard drive (IBM 120GXP 80Gb) to be installed as a slave to my Maxtor 80Gb Diamondmax. I connected all the cables as per specification, with the jumpers set correctly (Maxtor as primary, IBM as slave). Did the whole fdisk, partitioning and formatting, but every time Windwos 2K starts up, at the logon screen, it just reboots.... I then checked by booting up with Windows Me, but with Windows ME it works fine! The file system on both hard drives were formatted to be FAT32. I would appreciate any helpfull suggestions as I'm out of ideas!
Kind regards
Marius

 

[billbobagens]

I would like to find out a few things What operating systems is on your first 80 gig drive and how is your new drive set up as for the drive letters I do not know if this will help you out or not but if you are running win2k when it loads it will look in different places for the files it needs to load if for some reason your drive letters have changed since you put in the new drive it could make a difference in the boot up I was told that you need to load win2k on a fresh drive that has a new format done and when loading it with another operating system on any of the drives it will try to take controll of the other systems I know I am not giving you much info but I do need to know a little more about what you have running how was your system working before is the operating system something new you just added before the drive Thank you .

 

[tennex]

Hi, Ok, I had both Windows Me and Windows 2000 on the original (first) hard drive, with Drive letters C and D (Drive C containing the operating systems). The setup was

before the upgrade:
Matrox HD : letters C and D

After the upgrade
Matrox HD : letters C and E
IBM HD : letters D and F

I did notice that after I did the Fdisk on the new drive, that the new hard drive took drive letters D and F. Thus it could be as you said that by taking the drive letter D (which was previously assigned to the old one) Windows 2000 for some reason detects this and reboots.... Could a possible suggestion then be to do the Fdisk etc., then reinstall Windows 2000? (Not again! lol)

Thanks for the help!
Regards
Marius

 

[wolluf]

There's a few things here.

1. Disk administrator in Win2k is a much better way of partitioning & formatting than Fdisk. Also, you can choose the drive letters assignedto new partitions at the time of setting them up (as far as win2k is concerned - ME will just assign as per normal dos priorities - ie, like you now have). So, I would try using fdisk to remove partitions from new hard disk, then see if win2k will now boot, then use disk adminstrator to partition it.

2. If you've really got ME and 2k installed on same partition (you say operating systems on C: drive) you are asking for trouble. They should be on separate partitions.

3. I've seen 2k exhibit the rebooting you see when it effectively had a zero size page file, because I'd changed my drive configuration so drive I'd specified for page file no longer existed (but this shouldn't be your problem, as you've now more drive letters, including all original ones, although you don't mention and CD drive letters (because if where page file is supposed to be set up is now a CD ROM drive, it will obviously not work).

Hope this is of some use

 

[tennex]

Hi,

Thank you for this, only problem is I can't get into Windows 2000 no matter what I try, let me explain:I tried doing it the following way.. unpartitioning the new drive, and then starting Windows 2000, but still the rebooting continued. Then I went to my CMOS(BIOS) and removed this drive from the CMOS (BIOS), rebooted but still Windows 2000 rebooted at the windows logon screen....It only boots up if I remove the harddrive (power etc.)....

But I think the best way then probably would be to remove Windows 2000, install the harddrive, fdisk partinion etc. it, start in Windows ME, re-install Windows 2000 (after the new hard drive is already installed, and on a new partition) and then as soon as I'm in Windows 2000, use Disk administrator to change the partitions as I see them fit...

Thanks once again all for your feedback!

Kind regards
Marius van Wyk

 

[billbobagens]

Before you goto all that trouble you could do something else if you are familiar with dos. if you do not have too much on your e drive that win2k is looking for you could just move all the files through to the drive it needs if you recall your d drive turned into your e drive so all of your files are there they are just on e drive now so through dos you could copy or move the folders and files from e drive to d. just boot up in dos with a dos disk and move the files to the new drive of course you will have to have that drive formatted and ready to go before you try this. It is of course best to keep the two operating systems seperated on different partitions and just set the active partition to what you want to boot up on having the two operating systems together is asking for trouble like Wolluf mentioned above well Good luck with everything

 

[tennex]

Hi,

Well, tried it all as suggested. But no luck... tried copying HD in DOS, restarted Windows 2000, but still same result. Then tried doing the copy of the HD in Windows ME, restarted in Windows 2000, but still no luck. I ended up having to reinstall Windows 2000 and now the computer is booting up in Windows 2000 with no problem, but I did move my Windows 2000 to another HD.

Thanks all for the help and suggestions.

Kind regards