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8. October 2006, 19:49:33

MadMonkey

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Well, i turned off, plugged the new drive in, made sure it was jumped to slave. PC booted up and first thing it did was re-configure the disks. It said:

Disk 3: CD-ROM Disk 4: CD-ROM

So it had lost Disk 1: MAIN C Disk, that was fine before i turned PC off and had not picked up the New Disk.
I checked in BIOS, but obviously it could not tell me anything because according to it there were only 2 Disk drives on the system.
So i switched off, unplugged the New Disk and it re-configured back to:

Disk 1: Main Disk Disk 3: CD-ROM Disk 4: CD-ROM

so all was fine again. I have tried it a couple more times, taking the IDE cable out, repluging the hard disks in a different order, checking the jumpers, but no good. I still cant see what the Bios is up to as everytime i plug the new drive in, it loses that and the main drive.

8. October 2006, 19:59:05

King Reza

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MadMonkey:Why don't you try plugging in the Hard disk while your system is on?

8. October 2006, 20:56:50

MadMonkey

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King Reza: I thought that as well. Windows XP does not like that LOL, it jump out of windows and comes up with a BIG screen ERROR, about doing a memory dump etc.... if the error continues please......

8. October 2006, 20:58:22

King Reza

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MadMonkey:I have no problem when I plug a second hard disk in while my system is on. I'm using windows XP too.