New Hard drive-- Startup

[kevmakara]

I just installed my new hard drive last night, a Western Digital 80gb. I installed it (the physical part) quite easily, but now when I turn on my computer it stops at the screen that has the "Energy Star" environmental thing. It displays this (now keep in mind I'm not surew what it says on a normal startup, because it always goes too fast).

ASUS A7V8X-X ACPI BIOS Revision 1003

AMD Athlon (TM) XP 2000+

Memory Test: 262144K OK

Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A


And that's where it stops, the cursor is on the last "A".
I opened my computer and unhooked the hard drive ad then turned it on again, and here I am.
I'd really appreciate any help. Thanks.

[Spider]

That's normal. It's just getting the jumpers right now.

Make sure your molexes (plugs) and drives are hooked up right (http://home.graffiti.net/praetorians:graffiti.net/ide.ribbon/udma2.html)

The master drive jumper must be on Master or Master with Slave (not all drives have "with slave" position)
The new drive jumper goes to Slave.

So if Slave jumper fails to boot computer (your halt thing) then move jumper to CS and try to boot.

[kevmakara]

Yup, juist got it working witht the help of a friend. It turns out I was plugging in the 80 pin ribbon in upsidedown. *smacks self on head* Thanks for the help though.

[Spider]

It turns out I was plugging in the 80 pin ribbon in upsidedown.
The red wire goes on #1 pin. Common error, I still do it myself when a molex fits on both ways.

[kevmakara]

Okay, this really isn't a problem, justa convenience thing. I want Windows to recognize my new hard drive as the "primary"? drive. As in the one that contains "My Documents" and "Desktop", etc. Is there a way to do this, or do I have to change the jumpers again? My new drive is bigger than my old, soI just want to make the old drive sort of a backup. I'm not sure if I really explained that well, just ask if you have a question. Thanks alot for the help.

[Spider]

I'm not sure if I really explained that well
Clear-as-a-bell.

The "main" drive, like your talking about, is called a couple of things (all mean the same drive)
Primary Master (where it's plugged into)
C: Drive (the drive Windows looks to first when doin' things)

Yes you can move the new bigger drive to Primary Master but along with that you'll have to
install Windows on it otherwise your computer will have nothing to boot (start) to.
Even though you already have Windows on the other drive it will not operate properly if moved
over to Primary Slave position.

My Documents and Desktop are actually part of Windows so we just usually call that
where Windows is installed.

[jtdoom]

hi

western digital should have a drive manager available, and along with it, tools to copy drive content over to the new drive.

It's been a while I transferred a drive to a new one with these tools, but it worked like a charm, that is, once you found the tool in the menu.

FAIK, the more current tools even let you do this in windows.
I always used the DOS versions, but things evolve.
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=999