martymas Posted March 3, 2006 Report Share Posted March 3, 2006 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 $1.50to 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 $2which he ecceptedplus courier all up was $8first i had to prepare the drive and the only way was on my compt which is running winxpprobut 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 Qwhy 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 thinki need to place the pin in the slave positionso 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 normalhdd but it works ok by it self im not sure if ive explained this properlythe gentleman will be pleased as he used to use mine when he was wellhope some one can help Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dragon Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martymas Posted March 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 no it is happening on my compt we havent quite got the other one together yeat we intend to use xpand i believe the previous owner had win 98seso i presume it was in fats and i tried to convert it to ntfs from my righow ever ile try it with the pin in the slave positionmarty Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 (edited) 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dragon Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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