Make sure the 80 GB disk is at the end and jumpered to master with the 15 GB in the middle of the cable and set to slave. Check the BIOS to make sure it's all set to auto detect the IDE drives.
--- In [email protected], Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I have a buddy that lives out of town. He has an Emachine (one year > old). From what I can understand, he has partitioned his 80 gig hard > drive and has Xp, win2k and linux on it. I could be wrong but I am sure > that this is what he said. The drive worked fine. Today he tried adding > a 15 gig second hard drive that had no os. He has two rom drives and a > floppy drive. He used the cable that has only the hd connected to it to > connect the second hard drive. The 80 gig was connected to the middle > socket and the 15 gig to the end socket of the ribbon cable. The 15 gig > had two jumpers, one on 'master' and one on 'slave'. He removed the > master jumper to make the drive the slave. On boot he got an error > saying 'no os installed' so he switched the jumpers to make it a master. > Same thing. He then put both jumpers on like that which came with the > drive and had the same problem. He gave up and took the second drive > out. He still has the same problem now. If he boots to xp it says 'no > os' and if he boots to win2k it says 'no hard disk'. He tried fdisk but > it says no hard disk. He put his xp restore disk in and it starts doing > it's thing but then brings up a window that says it is looking for > 'a:\ghost.txt'. He said he has never run ghost. He is stumped. The only > thing I could think of were the cable connections but he says they are > fine, the way they were before he tried adding the 2cd hard drive. He > has a P4 2.4 gig cpu with 512 megs of ram. Any thoughts? I was thinking > maybe a low level cleaning like killdisk or something and starting fresh > but thought I'd ask you guys first. > > Sorry for the cross post > > Mick ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hb84ns3/M=362131.6882499.7825260.1510227/D=groups/S=1705115386:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122621127/A=2889191/R=0/SIG=10r90krvo/*http://www.thebeehive.org ">Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job) Welcome to the Sweet Life - brought to you by One Economy</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
