Babygurl,
The part of not seeing the drives in BIOS indicates that the ribbon cables were not fully in their sockets.
Or the XP drive is set to cable select.
Or the 3 gig drive needs jumpered strangley. Had a W/D that would not slave to another H/D... to a CD it would work fine.. never did figured that one out.
Normal when using a boot disk to go to the A prompt.
Step by step....
XP drive master on last ribbon connector. Old drive as slave on middle connector. Some will say use cable select on the drives and I will suggest that settings of master/slave does not work. Make sure connectors are fully inserted and reboot.
Luck
Bill
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Ok this is my problem. I'am using Compaq Presario 5410US, Seagate 40 gigs HD Model ST340810A, WinXP Home Edition SP2. I'm trying to install a old 3.2 gig Western Digital Caviar 33200 (I know I know, not much but what the hell!). This drive was in my old PC which was running WinME. I want old HD to be slave and my C drive to be master. Now I did all that jumper thingy. I've been reading forums all DAY! When it boots up I notice quickly something saying "No IDE Fixed present" When I go to Bios I do not see either drive. ALL I see are the Cd-RW, DVD and floppy drives. When I use the bootup disk I created says "Starting.....Windows ME" and I get A:/>.
Now I tried to switch it around and made the C drive Slave and the Old drive Master. Oh lookie here the bios see both drives. Then WinME Started I stopped it cuz I got scared, didnt want anything to happen to my C drive.
restarted PC with boot disk but got the same thing "Starting.....Windows ME" and I get A:/>.
Whem I try to type "fdisk" it says bad command or file
I was thinking maybe the boot disk?? I created it by formating it into MS-Dos Startup disk. I tried to download the Winxp boot disk. but it tells me I can't run it. something about system file can not run MS-Dos.
I Know I'm doing something wrong but can't get what it is.
Can any help me??? for the love of 3 gigs please help!!
Thank you in advance. Please let me know if there is any more info you need that might help.

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