Switched Hard Drives- now neither will work:(

[Bob65655]

I have a fairly old computer that was running windows me, I found another hard drive that supposedly had a lot more space so I switched them, now I get-

Searching for boot record form floppy..Not Found
Searching for boot record from SCSI.. Not Found

Drive Not Ready
Insert boot Diskette in A:
Press any key when ready

I thought all I needed was a blank floppy-with it I got non-system disk or disk error, replace and strike any key when ready.

-I have no materials for the computer and no reasonable access to another one.

(AMD K6 P.II)

 

[vacunita]

Unless the other other drive had an operating system that could be run on your computer, that's about all you are going to get.

You need to Install the operating system,,or put your old hard drive back in.

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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[Johnthephoneguy]

Add the 2nd hard drive as a slave, then put your original back in as master, use them both.

JohnThePhoneGuy

"If I can't fix it, it's not broke!

 

[Bob65655]

It's doing the same thing for both of them.

 

[vacunita]

Are they SCSI drives? Why is it looking for them in a SCSI device? Can you go into BIOS and make sure they are detected?

Something changed when you replaced the drive.

The first thing to do would be to make sure they are detected, and then make sure the boot order is correct.





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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[Bob65655]

When I power the machine up I get a screen with company info. etc... and it telling me my keyboard is detected and the mouse and that there is a hard disk pre-delay etc... I can access the setup menu with f2 but I don't know what to do there, I've never done this before and I was kind of expecting plug'nplay
...Theres a specify hard drive option in there, there are options from 1 to 60 or so and then user and auto, everything is on auto.

 

[vacunita]

Actually first we need to figure out what kind of Setup it is.

So what kind of computer is this? Brand Name?

Second: There should be an option such as Standard Features, or Devices which should list the drives it has recognized.
The wording may be different, but it has to list the drives.
If nothing is listed than we may be down to a connection problem.

What do your drives connectors look like?
Do they look like this:

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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[Bob65655]

One of the tines snapped off the second hard drive into the female part of the plug, ended up doing a number on the corresponding one from the first hard drive. I used one of the other plugs on the cord before trying again and then re-selected auto in menu and it recognized it etc...

Everythings good, thanks much.

 

[vacunita]

Glad you got it to work, and we appreciate you coming back with a response as to the cause of the problem.

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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.