Hdd

[martymas]

hi all recently

i bid for a 4.8 hdd on a site called trademe

i won the bid. and i got the hdd for $1.50

to explain why i i bid for it was

a friend has cancer and hasent that long to live

so we thought we would make him a rig

so he could enjoy his last few months

i contacted the seller and offered to pay him $2

which he eccepted

plus courier all up was

$8

first i had to prepare the drive

and the only way was on my compt

which is running winxppro

but now when i hook this drive up as the slave

i get a blue screen

if i set it up as the master with out the

other hdd hooked up it goes okay

to practice installing a sys

i installed ubuntu

and every thing went ok.

now my Q

why am i getting a blue screen

when both drives are hooked up

because i need to prepare it so it will work for our friend

this spare drive i can use with out the pin as a slave

does any one think

i need to place the pin in the slave position

so i dont get the blue screen when both drives are set up

by the way the drive is a bigfoot

and it certainly is a bigfoot it is wider and longer then the normal

hdd

but it works ok

by it self

im not sure if ive explained this properly

the gentleman will be pleased

as he used to use mine when he was well

hope some one can help

[Dragon]

i would try it with the pin in place, also check to make sure the BIOS recognizes it as a slave drive.

Also, is this on your computer your getting the BSOD or the machine your making for your friend??

oh, and I'm moving this to the PC support forum. better chance of getting more ideas/answers there then in OC.

[martymas]

no it is happening on my compt

we havent quite got the other one together yeat

we intend to use xp

and i believe the previous owner had win 98se

so i presume it was in fats

and i tried to convert it to ntfs

from my rig

how ever ile try it with the pin in the slave position

marty

[TheTerrorist_75]

Many drives have a jumper setting Master with dual drives or Master with Slave and etc. You will need to jumper your drive as one of these and jumper the one you are working on to Slave.

If it was me I would put it in your computer as Master by itself and use a Win98/ME bootdisk to format it FAT32. You can change it to NTFS later when you install WinXP. You shouldn't install WinXP on it while in your computer. Install it while it is in his computer. Do you have a floppy drive on your computer?

I use this WinME bootdisk from Radifed. Just format a floppy then install this to it (self-extracting).

http://radified.com/Files/bootmec.exe

Edited March 4, 2006 by TheTerrorist_75

[Dragon]

another thing I got thinking about, make sure the IDE cable is connected to the hdd properly, your system could be trying to load the second disk as primary rather then slave based on where the IDE cable is connected.