I just insatlled a new hard drive and i'm having a strange problem. I had a
bad C drive and replaced it. I used to have the configuration below.
A 3 1/2 inch floppy drive
C Hard drive (boot drive)
D Second hard drive
E DVD Drive

Now, I have somehow ended up with the following

A 3 1/2 inch floppy Drive
E New Hard Drive (boot drive)
C 2nd hard drive (used to be D drive)
D DVD Drive

My question is, how can I fix this??

reverse the ide connections on the hard drives.

reverse the ide connections on the hard drives.

"Pete" <mospam@nospam.net> wrote in message news:<QqednVZ0n5cV_fHcRVn-jQ@comcast.com>...
> I just insatlled a new hard drive and i'm having a strange problem. I had a
> bad C drive and replaced it. I used to have the configuration below.
> A 3 1/2 inch floppy drive
> C Hard drive (boot drive)
> D Second hard drive
> E DVD Drive
>
> Now, I have somehow ended up with the following
>
> A 3 1/2 inch floppy Drive
> E New Hard Drive (boot drive)
> C 2nd hard drive (used to be D drive)
> D DVD Drive
>
> My question is, how can I fix this??

Your 'New Hard Drive' has not been installed correctly.

* Put it on the Master connector of your IDE cable.
* Set the jumper on it to Master (or if there's a Master with Slave
option, you must use that).
* Put the second hard drive on the slave connector and set it to
slave.
* Make the 'New Hard Drive' active. THere's probably a nice way to do
that with XP, but a way that will work whatever version of windows you
have. Is to run Fdisk (off a win98 boot disk, which can be downloaded
from www.bootdisk.com) and select the option to set your new drive to
active.
* Make sure your BIOS is set to boot off the new drive.

If the new drive is Master and Active. And your BIOS is set to boot
off of it, then you can't go wrong.

"Pete" <mospam@nospam.net> wrote in message news:<QqednVZ0n5cV_fHcRVn-jQ@comcast.com>...
> I just insatlled a new hard drive and i'm having a strange problem. I had a
> bad C drive and replaced it. I used to have the configuration below.
> A 3 1/2 inch floppy drive
> C Hard drive (boot drive)
> D Second hard drive
> E DVD Drive
>
> Now, I have somehow ended up with the following
>
> A 3 1/2 inch floppy Drive
> E New Hard Drive (boot drive)
> C 2nd hard drive (used to be D drive)
> D DVD Drive
>
> My question is, how can I fix this??

Your 'New Hard Drive' has not been installed correctly.

* Put it on the Master connector of your IDE cable.
* Set the jumper on it to Master (or if there's a Master with Slave
option, you must use that).
* Put the second hard drive on the slave connector and set it to
slave.
* Make the 'New Hard Drive' active. THere's probably a nice way to do
that with XP, but a way that will work whatever version of windows you
have. Is to run Fdisk (off a win98 boot disk, which can be downloaded
from www.bootdisk.com) and select the option to set your new drive to
active.
* Make sure your BIOS is set to boot off the new drive.

If the new drive is Master and Active. And your BIOS is set to boot
off of it, then you can't go wrong.