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Second hard drive installation problem

  • 28-02-2003 12:11pm
    #1
    Washout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys,

    Wondering if you could help me with a lil problem.

    I put in a seocnd hard drive in my machine last night as a slave...The bios picks it up ok as the slave drive BUT when I boot into Windows 2000 And try to open any application my machine decideds to auto reboot itself.

    Help! im at me wits end..I got so much so annoyed last night that I even managed to break my ide cable.

    J


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  • #2
    tarzan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭tarzan


    i also have this problem. just got a new diamondmax plus 9 hard drive. connected it as master on secondary ide, bios picks up the drive , but when xp loads, it just restarts the machine. just keeps on at this. any ideas ? the maxtor utility for checking drives reports no errors


  • #3
    Washout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭Washout


    just found a possible solution to our problem tarzzan i will try this when i get home..perhaps you can give it a go

    Sometimes, after adding an additional drive to the system, Windows may fail to completely load. The system may end up in a loop in which it attempts to boot, fails, and then restarts repeatedly.

    Windows has a setting that dictates what happens when a system failure state occurs. This may be causing the restarts.

    To check for this, do the following:



    Shut down the system and remove the recently added drive. At this point, Windows should boot up normally.


    Once the desktop appears, right-click on My Computer and click Properties.


    Click the Advanced tab at the top of the resulting window.


    Click Startup and Recovery at the bottom of the next window. Look for the Automatically reboot option and uncheck it.


    Click OK twice to close the remaining windows.


    At this point, shut the system down and reconnect the hard drive. You should now be able to start the system and boot up completely into Windows. Proceed as normal to configure the drive using Disk Management


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