laroijackson

ok so i have 2 hard drives one is 80g the other is 30g and my computer broke a while back so i had to fix it myself so i had to reinstall a OS on it and when i did it made the 30g the boot drive and the 80g has no boot drive and i just bought a computer but it doesn't have a hard drive so what i wanted to do was use the 30g as the hard drive but when i take it out the 80g wont boot on my computer that i fixed cuz it has no boot drive i think idk so my question is how do i add a boot drive to the 80g keep it running by itself and take the 30g put that in the other computer and keep it running by itself so i can have 2 computer running and if it helps to know they both have os systmes on them the 30g has windows xp and the 80g has windows 7 beta ver.7227 but the 80g cant boot without the 30g hard drive being attched

HHHHHHEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

manic

Are these ide harddrives? If so I would say you have a jumper issue.
One is probably slave, and the other master. When you split the two
drives up, you must adjust the jumpers accordingly. With western
digital drives if its by itself with no other drive on the chain the jumper
is removed totally...There is usually a diagram on top of the drive itself
to show where the jumper goes.

laroijackson

how to find out if they are ide drives or not and how do i plug them in the computers im confused damn this irks me

linderman

ohhhhh boy


this can be deep >>>>>>


IDE drive has a flat two inch wide data cable >>>ide drives have jumpers

Sata drive has 1/2 wide data cable >>>> sata drives dont use jumpers


your situation could be two things

A) right now when you boot with the 30 gig drive ....do you get a boot menu that allows options to boot into the older windows or windows 7 ?????????

if yes, then your windows boot loader resides on your 30gig drive ......which means when you remove the 30 gig from the system . the windows 7 OS has no "eyes" its bootloader has been kidnapped = no boot

to fix that you would need to perform some "fix boot" recovery console action which I am not sure how or if there is a recovery console with win 7 ?????? I know with vista they make a bootable rescue CD to fix such issues


another option you may want to explore is changing the boot order in the bios of your current computer to see if you can get the win 7 drive to boot first and then unplug the cable from the old 30 gig drive and try booting again ....... will the win 7 drive boot withouth the help of the 30 gig drive ?

we mind as well keep stirring this deep mud for you and tell you when you transplant that 30 gig drive into the new computer .......you will need to perform a win xp repair install to remove all the system drives which were in use by your old machine ...... after the repair install is done .....you will need to install all the drivers needed by the new computer system

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XP...install.htm#RI


you totally confused yet ?


far easier would be jsut wipe the drives clean with killdisk and install them into their respective machines and perform a clean install of each OS again

laroijackson

the win 7 drive will not boot without the 30g so basically can i download a OS and install that to a new hard drive cuz i just got anoher hard drive from frien and its also 80g but when i erase it my question is while im on win7 drive can i download a OS and put it on the new 80g and that will be able to boot by itself or ill need to do a cd instead? and im not confused i get what your saying and can you post a pic of the difference between ide drives and other drives plz

linderman

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...num=7&ct=image

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http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...num=6&ct=image

laroijackson

how do you install a OS because i got a friend that gave me a windows vista OS but its one he downloaded or something and i erased the new 80g hard drive now im trying to install the os but it wont do nothing when i put it in it says press f1 to reboot and f2 to system something but it wont install or somethign but remember the hard drive was formatted so it as no boot

raptor_pa

You will need a legitimate copy of Windows on a CD to install.

linderman

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/operat...stxpclean1.htm

http://searchwindowsserver.techtarge...251251,00.html