Trouble adding slave

[mawilson]

I have a hard drive loaded with XP that will not boot and needs to be replaced. I need to try to get any data off of it that I can. I am putting it into a Dell Optiplex GX1. I have the BIOS set to auto for the 2nd drive and it does recognize it, but when I try to boot it hangs at the Windows XP startup screen and won't go any further. If I take out the 2nd drive it boots fine. Can someone direct me as to what I am doing wrong and how I can get it right?

Thanks

 

[Knocturnal]

1.Have you checked the jumper settings on your harddrives?
Make sure you've made one the master and one the slave.

2.You may not have an adequete power supply.

 

[mawilson]

I have the original set a the master and I have tried the other with the slave and cable select jumper settings.
The bios recognizes the slave, but the machine will not boot completely with it connected. Could that be the power supply?

 

[aldog]

Try jumpering BOTH hard drives as cable select. Both hard drives need to be jumpered as cable select or NONE at all.

You cannot have just one drive jumped as cable select.

I would try to boot Windows in safe mode, and then go to the control panel and see if the new hard drive is recognised. If the hard drive shows up in the bios at startup, and if Windows starts to run, I would suggest that the hard drive is jumpered correctly.

Use an 80 wire ATA/66 cable and switch both hard drives to cable select and see what happens.


At the begining of the post you stated that the hard drive will not boot, but later in your post you say that if you take out the second hard drive, it boots fine. Which is it?

 

[mawilson]

The second one is the one that will not boot on its own. I am trying to set it up as a slave so that I can recover the data from it. The first drive will boot fine on its own, but when I add the second (slave), it hangs at the windows xp startup screen.

I will try to set them both as CS and see it that takes care of it.

 

[mawilson]

I set both drives to cable select, but no luck. I have tried booting to safe mode, but it stops in the same spot every time. When it loading files, it stops on agp440.sys. Does that help as far as trouble shooting it?

Thanks
Mark

 

[jward52]

Did you try the suspect drive on the other IDE channel? Just need to unhook one drive temporarily if there are two IDE devices on the other channel. I think you'll find that the drive has died.

 

[mawilson]

I got the second drive to come up as a slave on a 98 machine. How do I get to the point that I can access the data on the slave drive?

 

[Kofy]

mawilson, if you've formatted the HD as NTFS that you have Windows XP installed in then you have a problem as windows 98 CANNOT read NTFS formatted hard disks. the only way you might be able to access the data on the drive if you've formatted it NTFS is to either use a program for retrieving data from NTFS such ass

http://www.runtime.org

GetDataBackNTFS or some such.. unless you connect the drive to another machine running Win2k or XP that is. good luck with your drive.

 

[TekTippy4U]

Mawilson;
Kofy is correct about 98 Fat32 and NTFS...
Do what jward52 said and then go into BIOS and Device Manager and make sure that "Use Both Channels" or "Dual Channel" under IDE is selected....
Do you have a CD connected to other Secondary IDE channel...and is it working???
You don't need to boot from the "faulty" drive....it just needs to read, once the other drive boots....

TT4U

Notification:
These are just "my" thoughts....and should be carefully measured against other opinions....I try very hard to impart correct info at all times.

 

[mawilson]

I got a newer machine with a good load of XP on it. I have added the unbootable drive to the second ide channel of that machine. The bios recognizes it, but the machine will not boot with the bad drive in it. I also tried adding it to the same ide channel as the good drive in a master/slave config and also as both cable select. Any way I configure it, the bios recognizes it but the machine will not boot. Does anyone have any suggestions of should I give up on it?

 

[TekTippy4U]

I gots a feelin that you'll need to Dual Boot....
and edit the Boot.ini file to reflect it...

Read these;

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=289022

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=217210

and/or you could spend the 70 smackers for Partition Magic here....

http://www.partitionmagic.com/partitionmagic/

and read this to use it..

http://www.bitbenderforums.com/howto/case/Dual_pp_01.htm

Wish I could be of more help...
I'm noticing quite a few persons with the same issue you have, and IMO, It's got to have to do with intermingling the different file systems....



TT4U

Notification:
These are just "my" thoughts....and should be carefully measured against other opinions....I try very hard to impart correct info at all times.

 

[Kocky]

What are the specs of the harddrive.
If it's UDMA66 or above than you need to use a 80-pin IDE cabel.