Howdy again Jim. Re not accepting the windows codes It should accept the one it was created with, Presumably the one that was with the Compaq1 that you got the larger hard drive with.
But - as you are going down the second drive path, the first thing is to get the system back to working with the original configuration. So - Do you have 2 P-ATA IDE cables, and do either of then have markings such as CS or master and Slave on them What do you have connected to which interface blocks on the cables On the drive, there should be some indication as to the action of the various jumper settings (if you cannot find them, then you'll need to use the drive type to check with the Seagate site for the meanings) It should be pretty basic - if the cable is a CS one marked with Master and Slave, then the cable will tell the drive if it is to be a master, or slave drive - and you can have 1 of each on a cable. That's what the jumper setting CS is for - so the drive knows it is to take its setting from the cable, but do connect the first (or only) drive to the master position on the cable. Other cables do not have the wiring to force a drive to be master, or slave, and with those you need to tell the drive if it is a master, only drive, or a slave drive.You do that by setting the jumpers appropriately (Jumpers are usually at the rear of the drive between the power supply and the interface cable) Awaiting your response after you have checked that - Oh 1 and do check that you do have 2 sockets on the motherboard for the P-ATA IDE cables. Re Marc's comments on the HAL.DLL, you have gone past the major problems that may have been caused by that if the system has booted, and decided it needs to re-activate itself. JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Poer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 4:54 PM Subject: How to install slave drive > I have a 60G Seagate hard drive I want to install as a slave on a Compaq > 5SPXE1. Both are about 3 or 4 years old. I had another thread going on > activating WinOS, but have decided to go slave. Can anyone suggest a website > to get me started? Both drives have the same configuration on the jumpers > and are right now set the same, as the 60G was also the only drive in > another Compaq. The PC I am putting it into has QuickRestore disks that go > with it, not a single copy of XP Home(if that matters). The 60G drive has > WinXPHome on it also. Both are legitimate OS's. I am getting instructions > from Compaq on how to do this, but is there anything that I need to be aware > of?? They give no clue as to what is going to happen when I reboot. Movely > slowly forward and TIA for any help. > Jim > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: > CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. > > -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
