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**mack1** · 02-23-2008, 10:02 PM

Hi Brandon,
Let me see if I can help you a little. The stuff you just posted is good. Note that ide 0 has master and slave places and ide 1 has master and slave places. Those are the two flat cables I mentioned in my first post. You only have one device connected to a flat cable and it is your CD rom. Note also that the BIOS lists it as a slave.(not good) Since it is the only device on that cable, it should be jumpered as a master. On the back of the CD rom, there is a place to jumper it to be a master, slave, or other. The jumper is just a little flat shorting bar that fits across two pins. Use your finger nails or tweezers, or neddle nose pliars to move the jumper over to the master shorting place. That will make it a master on that cable and that is important.
Notice that your boot order has the CD rom as the first boot item. After you make the CD rom a master, the system will probably time out and GO PAST THAT POINT TO YOUR HARD DRIVE and try to boot on it. If all is well, it will boot on the hard drive at that point. Notice also that ide 2 has only one item, as does ide 3. That says that those items are SATA (serial ata type devices). Also notice that 2 is a master (your hard drive). This is good and says that after the boot process gets past the cd rom, it will boot on the hard drive.
If it will not boot on the hard drive, you will need to find your XP disk. This was mentioned to you earlier in someone's post and you didn't understand why you needed it. You need it if you can't get to your XP files on your hard drive. It will let you do a repair install that will probably fix any problem you have at present. Or let you go to a recovery console where you can implement repairs.
See if this will help you. Post any results you might get.

And have a nice night.

02-23-2008, 10:02 PM	#26 (permalink)
mack1 TSF Articles Team Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Texarkana, Texas Posts: 1,245 OS: xp sp3 My System	Re: HELP! hard drive problem with winxp[MOVED FROM WINDOWS Hi Brandon, Let me see if I can help you a little. The stuff you just posted is good. Note that ide 0 has master and slave places and ide 1 has master and slave places. Those are the two flat cables I mentioned in my first post. You only have one device connected to a flat cable and it is your CD rom. Note also that the BIOS lists it as a slave.(not good) Since it is the only device on that cable, it should be jumpered as a master. On the back of the CD rom, there is a place to jumper it to be a master, slave, or other. The jumper is just a little flat shorting bar that fits across two pins. Use your finger nails or tweezers, or neddle nose pliars to move the jumper over to the master shorting place. That will make it a master on that cable and that is important. Notice that your boot order has the CD rom as the first boot item. After you make the CD rom a master, the system will probably time out and GO PAST THAT POINT TO YOUR HARD DRIVE and try to boot on it. If all is well, it will boot on the hard drive at that point. Notice also that ide 2 has only one item, as does ide 3. That says that those items are SATA (serial ata type devices). Also notice that 2 is a master (your hard drive). This is good and says that after the boot process gets past the cd rom, it will boot on the hard drive. If it will not boot on the hard drive, you will need to find your XP disk. This was mentioned to you earlier in someone's post and you didn't understand why you needed it. You need it if you can't get to your XP files on your hard drive. It will let you do a repair install that will probably fix any problem you have at present. Or let you go to a recovery console where you can implement repairs. See if this will help you. Post any results you might get. And have a nice night.