Ironworks Gaming Forum - View Single Post - How hard is it to install a second hard drive???

andrewas · 09-23-2002, 11:24 AM

OK. Lets see.

You can boot from the 20Gb if the 80Gb isnt present, but if the 80 is there it falls over? Thats weird to say the least.

If you can rig it to boot from CDROM you might be able to just repair your original XP installation. Its usualy a case of changing the boot sequence in the BIOS. Once you can boot XPhome with the 80 installed, you should be OK.

If that fails its probably time to format the lot (you did take backups, right?) and start again. You might have problems with that if you only have an XP upgrade CD, but youll know about that.

09-23-2002, 11:24 AM	#36
andrewas Harper Join Date: October 2, 2001 Location: Aberdeen, Scotland Age: 43 Posts: 4,774	OK. Lets see. You can boot from the 20Gb if the 80Gb isnt present, but if the 80 is there it falls over? Thats weird to say the least. If you can rig it to boot from CDROM you might be able to just repair your original XP installation. Its usualy a case of changing the boot sequence in the BIOS. Once you can boot XPhome with the 80 installed, you should be OK. If that fails its probably time to format the lot (you did take backups, right?) and start again. You might have problems with that if you only have an XP upgrade CD, but youll know about that. __________________ [img]\"http://www.sighost.us/members/Zvijer/andrewas.gif\" alt=\" - \" />