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be4con · 06-10-2008, 07:20 AM

Thanks again dai.

I think I've finally managed to solve the problem. I had to tweak some settings in my BIOS relating to hard disk boot order and change the jumper settings on the 2nd drive to slave (which seemed counter-intuitive to me - the master IDE device is a dvd drive) but now both the new IDE drive and the the old SATA drive have an active partition on them and I have been able to boot to XP on either drive (depending on what combination are physically connected to the system)

I've proceeded with the fresh XP installation and the original problem now appears to be solved.

Thanks very much for all you patient assistance on solving this for me.

Dave :)

06-10-2008, 07:20 AM	#70 (permalink)
be4con Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 62 OS: XP Home	Re: Is my PSU dead? Thanks again dai. I think I've finally managed to solve the problem. I had to tweak some settings in my BIOS relating to hard disk boot order and change the jumper settings on the 2nd drive to slave (which seemed counter-intuitive to me - the master IDE device is a dvd drive) but now both the new IDE drive and the the old SATA drive have an active partition on them and I have been able to boot to XP on either drive (depending on what combination are physically connected to the system) I've proceeded with the fresh XP installation and the original problem now appears to be solved. Thanks very much for all you patient assistance on solving this for me. Dave :)