hard drive blues

[A-Team]

Ok this might not be the place to ask but i took the hard drive out of one of my computers put it back in and now all i get after it says win2000 is a black screen with a little curser flashing in the top right corner do i have to go into bios or something?

[calin]

What else you did...??? Maybe you changed something (jumpers, cables, etc.)???

[A-Team]

I took out a 20kb to put in a 40kb the same harddrive just 20 moe kb-got nothing put the other back and got the same thing used same cablels did not change anything???????:confused:

[Crazy1_79]

you put in a new harddrive? and i assume you mean 40gb harddrive, you have to do a drive to drive copy fo switch over OS

[A-Team]

you put in a new harddrive? and i assume you mean 40gb harddrive, you have to do a drive to drive copy fo switch over OSYes i did but i don't know how to do a drive to drive copy can you explain?

[lobogobo]

Ok this might not be the place to ask but i took the hard drive out of one of my computers put it back in and now all i get after it says win2000 is a black screen with a little curser flashing in the top right corner do i have to go into bios or something?


no use in doing a drive copy if the old drive won't boot up. With old drive in check the bios to see if it is reading drive. It sounds like you lost the startup file. just as well to put new drive in and start over.

[mikepr]

format your new one first..then put windows on......reconnect your old one back on as a slave and then copy the files you need from it.....then if you want you can erase your old one once all the info you want is off it

[lobogobo]

That will work as long as he isn't using a sata drive. Sata drives don't like to be saddled

[mikepr]

He said he took out a 20gb...so im doubing it is SATA

[A-Team]

I took out a 20 and put in a 40 i don't want to lose the info on the 40 i want to put in they are both the same make just on is 20 and the one i want to use is a 40 i don't know how to formate it?

[lobogobo]

connect up the drive then boot it and go into the bios to make sure the comp reads it. then reboot with the windows disk and follow onscreen instuctions. it will ask you if you want to format. it will format then load windows. after the drive is all loaded shut down and install old drive. don't forget to put the pin connector to slave.

[calin]

Thanks for all the info guys, but he is talking about a 20Gigs with Windows 2000. As somebody else said: you have to format the 40Gigs BEFORE and then make a fresh install of windows then you can connect as a Slave the 20Gigs to transfer all your data back to the 40.

[smilingjack]

1. put it back the way is was.

2. put the 40 gig in as a slave

3. Format the 40 gig, installing the windows.

4. Do a back-up of the 20 gig and save it to both HD.

5. Do a master change, 40 as master, 20 gig as slave

6. Re-store the back-up to the 40 gig.

7. Clean of the 20 gig HD, use it for files.

This is the easiness way. now you have a 40 gig hard drive and a 20 gig files

(I would use 2 partitions on the 40, 1-10 gig to hold windows, the rest for stage move the "My Documents" here )
( I always use a 10 gig partition for Windows, it works better )

[Nakedmadman]

Install the 40gig hard drive, then go into your bios and make sure your cd or dvd rom drive is the first bootup device, put your windows 2000 cd in, then reboot.Then you can delete/create a partition and format the drive.

[rg6a]

Install the 40gig hard drive, then go into your bios and make sure your cd or dvd rom drive is the first bootup device, put your windows 2000 cd in, then reboot.Then you can delete/create a partition and format the drive.

Real can of worms this is, just looking at the size, these must be old systems as 20 & 40's haven't been around for years. I'm not familar with W2K but if it's still Dos based he could Sys it and it should be OK.

Then of course, what IDE slot were both in and what else was connected? No 40mb that I know of is 7200RPM, Eide or Sata. Also WinDoze drives can't easily be swapped to another motherboard with a different chipset.........you need the drivers or have to have the CD handy.

Jack made a good point, just doing a drive copy from a 20 to 40 will really mess things up, have to partition so it looks like it's going to an exact size and using the extra partition for data helps.

I'd suggest he bite the bullet, take the unit and drives to a good clone store and spend $50 to purchase a new 80/120gig and then another $50 to have them put all the data on the new drive and be done with it!

The more he plays around <in the dark> the higher the chances of loosing Everything!!


PS I'm wondering Why didn't he burn CDs and copy his important data to
them, before attempting a combo/swap??

Hindsight is 20:20! :-(

[A-Team]

1. put it back the way is was.

2. put the 40 gig in as a slave

3. Format the 40 gig, installing the windows.

4. Do a back-up of the 20 gig and save it to both HD.

5. Do a master change, 40 as master, 20 gig as slave

6. Re-store the back-up to the 40 gig.

7. Clean of the 20 gig HD, use it for files.

This is the easiness way. now you have a 40 gig hard drive and a 20 gig files

(I would use 2 partitions on the 40, 1-10 gig to hold windows, the rest for stage move the "My Documents" here )
( I always use a 10 gig partition for Windows, it works better )Thanks once again i did exactly what you said and i'm runnin' fine!!As you guys could tell this was my first time doing this and i want to thank all of you for your help.THANKS Again.:)