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Changed drives & now won't boot

911 Views 8 Replies 7 Participants Last post by Rich-M, Jan 29, 2007

wdwkr

Discussion Starter · Jan 1, 2007

I couldn't find a problem like mine on the forum, so thought I'd post this. I have computer#1 that kept rebooting itself, so I took the drive out & put it as a secondary drive in computer#2 & works fine. But when I change the jumpers & try to make it Primary (and the only drive), it won't boot into windows. I just get the option screen & no safe modes work. The jumpers are the same as when it worded in C#1 as primary. I changed the CMOS battery & reset. Unplugged everything except drive at end of primary ribbon. Drive search all AUTO. AMD K7S5A Athlon XP 1800+ & IBM Deskstar 41.4GB 7200RPM MOD IC35L040AVVA07-0.
What am I missing?

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bernardus

· #8 · Jan 29, 2007

If you have tried to use the drive of another system it will corrupt the drives info.
You can't change a drive wich is adapted to a system and use the same settings.
But the drive should be detected in the BIOS. Perhaps the Bootup record is damaged if you're lucky. Windows repair is almost a garantuee for disaster, after repair it won't boot.

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