hello all. i'm new in writing to this forum and have been stuck on a problem for a couple of hours now. i'm hoping to get help. today i connected a 2nd SATA hard drive to my dell 8400. the original drive with the system is a seagate 80GB and the new drive is a maxtor 300GB. i used symantec ghost to disk to disk copy the contents of the 80gig drive over to the 300gig. then i switched out the 80gig and put the 300gig in there on SATA-0 to make it my primary c:. it boots up to winXP fine, i login, and it says logging off... then prompts me to put in the login / pass again. i can't get into windows. strange.
when i put the 80gig back into SATA-0 and the 300gig into SATA-1, i get into windows fine and both drives are identical images with the 300gig showing up in computer management as correct. it is called f: however. i try to put the 300gig back into SATA-0, remove the 80gig and bootup and winXP doesn't let me log on again.
the other weird thing to note is i have a mac powerbook to test file sharing onto the dell with, while it sits at the winXP login screen. it can't see a c$ share but instead i can connect to the dell with the f$ share!!! i know that the SATA is configured by the bios, is there something i'm missing here? w/o having to re-install winXP on the new drive, is there any way i can make the 300gig drive my primary? any help will be appreciated.
when i put the 80gig back into SATA-0 and the 300gig into SATA-1, i get into windows fine and both drives are identical images with the 300gig showing up in computer management as correct. it is called f: however. i try to put the 300gig back into SATA-0, remove the 80gig and bootup and winXP doesn't let me log on again.
the other weird thing to note is i have a mac powerbook to test file sharing onto the dell with, while it sits at the winXP login screen. it can't see a c$ share but instead i can connect to the dell with the f$ share!!! i know that the SATA is configured by the bios, is there something i'm missing here? w/o having to re-install winXP on the new drive, is there any way i can make the 300gig drive my primary? any help will be appreciated.