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

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dv6cougar

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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