jackal969k
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My friend's OS is WinME. His 30 gig Maxtor HD was starting to go bad so he wanted to install another Maxtor 30 gig that he bought.
I installed the new HD and did a drive to drive copy which went ok and all the info got transfered to the new drive. I unhooked the old drive (defined as C), set the jumper on the new drive (D) to master. It will not boot from the D drive. If I hook the old drive back up along with the new drive it boots just fine. Like it is booting from the old drive and then the new drive takes over.
I want to be sure that it will boot from the new drive before I wipe the old drive clean. He wants to keep the old drive in the system too so that he can use it for extra storage until it craps out. He doesn't intend to put anything crucial on it.
What do I have to do to get it to boot off the new drive? Do I have to go into the bios and change something and if so
what do I need to change?
Thank you in advance for your help!
I installed the new HD and did a drive to drive copy which went ok and all the info got transfered to the new drive. I unhooked the old drive (defined as C), set the jumper on the new drive (D) to master. It will not boot from the D drive. If I hook the old drive back up along with the new drive it boots just fine. Like it is booting from the old drive and then the new drive takes over.
I want to be sure that it will boot from the new drive before I wipe the old drive clean. He wants to keep the old drive in the system too so that he can use it for extra storage until it craps out. He doesn't intend to put anything crucial on it.
What do I have to do to get it to boot off the new drive? Do I have to go into the bios and change something and if so
what do I need to change?
Thank you in advance for your help!