DVD-Man
06-19-2004, 12:21 PM
Ok, my bro is formatting his PC as I think his HD with Windows on it has had it & he has to format the 80GB to create an extra partition on it & install windows on that one.
Thing is.. I took out the 20GB drive (one that had windows on it & is dying we think) & then just left the 80GB drive in there & then set it as master.
Then when we booted up.. when it looks for primary master & such it couldn't find the drive. (I also tried it as "cable select" instead of master & it chose slave) :curse:
So I put the other drive back in & set that as master & left the 80GB on "cable select".
Now I found out that I only can set a partition as active on drive 1 .. but the 80GB doesn't seem to want to be drive 1 .. or since the 80GB drive didn't have an active partition b4 was that why it wouldn't find it as the master or what?
Cheers!
Thing is.. I took out the 20GB drive (one that had windows on it & is dying we think) & then just left the 80GB drive in there & then set it as master.
Then when we booted up.. when it looks for primary master & such it couldn't find the drive. (I also tried it as "cable select" instead of master & it chose slave) :curse:
So I put the other drive back in & set that as master & left the 80GB on "cable select".
Now I found out that I only can set a partition as active on drive 1 .. but the 80GB doesn't seem to want to be drive 1 .. or since the 80GB drive didn't have an active partition b4 was that why it wouldn't find it as the master or what?
Cheers!