Problem with a new HDD (IDE) and Windows 2000.

dv6cougar · 07-30-2006, 02:18 PM

It's actually a bit more then just a conflict with Windows 2000. It's a friend pc where i'm trying to install a 200 gig hard drive. On my pc it starts up everytime with no problems. My first thought was that there was an issue with the jumpers, but there isn't, i have checked at least 20 times.
Here's the actual problem. On the pc with W2000, it sometimes won't boot at all. Either it works fine and windows can read it too, or bios doesn't read it or it's not read at all, or bios errors out and won't boot at all. And I put into dos-mode, and it says there is no manager system installed at all.

I have no idea what i should do, but i have checked jumpers, cables and all that.... but everytime i plug into my machine with WXp, it works fine.

Any input would be great, thanks guys/gals.

**The_Other_One** · 07-30-2006, 03:03 PM

Western Digital drives are very odd, sometimes. Be sure the jumpers are set correctly. Realize, there is are "master single drive" and "master with slave present" settings. I once had one to master with slave with no slave. The drive worked, but it was very slow and started blue-screening after windows did it's first reboot.

Sacrinyellow5 · 07-30-2006, 03:20 PM

Will Windows 2000 support that large of a drive? Maybe that is where the problem is heppening? I know I was a bit worried when installing my new 250 on my machine, because of OS issue, but luckly enough everything worked out fine. I also have XP with SP2 and not 2000.

dv6cougar · 07-31-2006, 09:21 AM

I'm not sure if the hard drive is too big or not, but that doesn't explain why bios can't read it does it?

dv6cougar · 08-02-2006, 11:04 AM

I will attempt to make smaller partitions of the drive today, to see if that has any effect.

07-30-2006, 02:18 PM	#1 (permalink)
dv6cougar New Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 15	Problem with a new HDD (IDE) and Windows 2000. It's actually a bit more then just a conflict with Windows 2000. It's a friend pc where i'm trying to install a 200 gig hard drive. On my pc it starts up everytime with no problems. My first thought was that there was an issue with the jumpers, but there isn't, i have checked at least 20 times. Here's the actual problem. On the pc with W2000, it sometimes won't boot at all. Either it works fine and windows can read it too, or bios doesn't read it or it's not read at all, or bios errors out and won't boot at all. And I put into dos-mode, and it says there is no manager system installed at all. I have no idea what i should do, but i have checked jumpers, cables and all that.... but everytime i plug into my machine with WXp, it works fine. Any input would be great, thanks guys/gals.

07-30-2006, 03:03 PM	#2 (permalink)
The_Other_One Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lexington, NC Age: 23 Posts: 12,307	Western Digital drives are very odd, sometimes. Be sure the jumpers are set correctly. Realize, there is are "master single drive" and "master with slave present" settings. I once had one to master with slave with no slave. The drive worked, but it was very slow and started blue-screening after windows did it's first reboot. __________________ Urban De-Development * Athlon X2 4200 \| 2048M RAM \| 160G HD \| 7600GT * C2D T5250 \| 2048M RAM \| 160G HD \| Intel x3100 * G4 1.33GHz \| 512M RAM \| 40G HD \| Radeon 9200

07-30-2006, 03:20 PM	#3 (permalink)
Sacrinyellow5 Platinum Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Louis Posts: 915	Will Windows 2000 support that large of a drive? Maybe that is where the problem is heppening? I know I was a bit worried when installing my new 250 on my machine, because of OS issue, but luckly enough everything worked out fine. I also have XP with SP2 and not 2000. __________________ Harvey Pekar "Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff" ------------------------------------------------- -Tower /AMD 64x2 Dual Core 4400+ (2.3Ghz) 2 GB DDR2/Geforce 8400GS/160 SATA HD/DVD-RW/Vista Home -Laptop /Core 2 Duo T6460 (1.66Ghz)/2 GB DDR2/Intel GMA X3100/250 SATA HD/Vista Premium -Server /P4 2.26 Ghz/1 GB Ram/GeForce FX 5200/80 & 250GB HDx2/DVD-RW/XP -MAC G4(Quick Silver)/768 Mb Rams/40 GB & 2x120GB HD/DVD-RW/OSX Go Cards!

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07-31-2006, 09:21 AM	#4 (permalink)
dv6cougar New Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 15	I'm not sure if the hard drive is too big or not, but that doesn't explain why bios can't read it does it?

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dv6cougar New Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 15	I will attempt to make smaller partitions of the drive today, to see if that has any effect.