Computer Reads It But

[chris17]

Can Any Teckie Help Me !!

I Have A Maxtor 120 GB Hard Drive Which Is Getting A Little Full Now, So Have Got A Samsung 300GB Hard Drive Installed As Well. At First The PC Read It As Normal ( Although It Only Read The Samsung As 127 GB Instead Of 300GB, anyway i transferred a few files over to my new drive from my maxtor.

To Which All Went Well, And Then The Other Day As I Booted Up My PC , It Read Master Maxtor, Slave Samsung Secondary Master NEC DVD-RW ND 1300A Secondary Slave None. And Then The Wibndows Logo Screen Came Up As Normal But Just Stayed There For About 2-3 Mins And Then Went Off And A BSOD Screen Came Up and went that fast i could not read the error code.

and then rebooted again, and then came up with windows was not shut down correctly do you want to start windows normally, safe mode, last known configuration that worked, Etc Etc. I Am A Bit Puzzled On What To Do, As I Would Like Most Of My Files That I Transferred over, back in one piece.

Any Clues To The Techie Peeps Here On What To Do.

Many Thanks chris17

 

[Codeman0013]

start first off by taking out the samsung and seeing if you can get a clean boot, if that works then plug it back in adn go into bio's and see what its reading if its is reading it then check your jumper settings and insure they are correct and try one more time to boot it may just be a simple jumper issue try CS on both of them and see what it does...

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[wolluf]

Can you also give a little more background? (I'd agree with Codeman0013 about disconnecting Samsung as first step).

Although It Only Read The Samsung As 127 GB Instead Of 300GB

Did you sort this out so it did see 300 - or just use it as 127? Was it the bios only seeing 127 or did bios see 300 and windows saw 127?

How old is your machine and which version of windows (including service pack) are you running?

(there's a bios limitation on bioses > 4-5 years old on size of hard drive it can handle. If yours has this problem, it might be contributory cause to your issue. There might be a bios upgrade to fix the 127 limit - though it may or may or fix your problem. There's also aimilar limitation in win2k, pre-SP3 and winxp pre-SP1)

How did you partition/format the new drive?