Hard drives living together....

8 Mar 2005 7:44 PM

James

Having a problem with 2 hard drives cohabiting im my PC... The primary is a
Maxtor and the secondary is a Nikimi... The PC does not boot when the second
drive is connected. In the BIOS all looks fine, but windows will not start.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

James

8 Mar 2005 7:51 PM

William W. Plummer

James wrote:

> Having a problem with 2 hard drives cohabiting im my PC... The primary is a
> Maxtor and the secondary is a Nikimi... The PC does not boot when the second
> drive is connected. In the BIOS all looks fine, but windows will not start.

Check the master/slave/auto jumpers

8 Mar 2005 9:25 PM

James

Have done, and have tried a variety of combinations with jumper settings

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"William W. Plummer" <William.Plum***@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
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> James wrote:
>> Having a problem with 2 hard drives cohabiting im my PC... The primary is
>> a Maxtor and the secondary is a Nikimi... The PC does not boot when the
>> second drive is connected. In the BIOS all looks fine, but windows will
>> not start.
> Check the master/slave/auto jumpers

9 Mar 2005 12:04 AM

kony

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:25:50 GMT, "James"
<jva***@killergroove.com> wrote:

>
>"William W. Plummer" <William.Plum***@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
>news:Ctadnfmbx5mvn7PfRVn-oQ@comcast.com...
>> James wrote:
>>> Having a problem with 2 hard drives cohabiting im my PC... The primary is
>>> a Maxtor and the secondary is a Nikimi... The PC does not boot when the
>>> second drive is connected. In the BIOS all looks fine, but windows will
>>> not start.
>> Check the master/slave/auto jumpers

>Have done, and have tried a variety of combinations with jumper settings
>

Then try moving the Kikimi to another position, or run it
from an PCI controller card. What exactly does "PC does
not boot... windows will not start", mean? Where does the
whole process stop, exactly?

9 Mar 2005 1:03 PM

jack

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 00:04:13 GMT, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:

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>On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:25:50 GMT, "James"
><jva***@killergroove.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>"William W. Plummer" <William.Plum***@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
>>news:Ctadnfmbx5mvn7PfRVn-oQ@comcast.com...
>>> James wrote:
>>>> Having a problem with 2 hard drives cohabiting im my PC... The primary is
>>>> a Maxtor and the secondary is a Nikimi... The PC does not boot when the
>>>> second drive is connected. In the BIOS all looks fine, but windows will
>>>> not start.
>>> Check the master/slave/auto jumpers
>
>
>>Have done, and have tried a variety of combinations with jumper settings
>>
>
>Then try moving the Kikimi to another position, or run it
>from an PCI controller card. What exactly does "PC does
>not boot... windows will not start", mean? Where does the
>whole process stop, exactly?
>
>

I had a problem like this, where the slave drive had been a boot drive
that had apparently gotten damaged. When I tried slaving it to another
computer to try to fix it or salvage the files, it wouldn't boot. I
couldn't run scandisk, as I couldn't get to a prompt, but was able to
run two hard disk utilities on it, which both reported it as fine.
Kony suggested I try a USB enclosure, but even that, initially, would
lock up the system. So, I put a new hard drive in the troubled system,
and then, for some still unknown reason, the problem drive in the USB
enclosure worked in it. I ran scndsk /r on it and found a bunch of
errors that the other utilities hadn't found. Now it works fine.
So, you may want to pick up a hard drive enclosure and see if you can
get it recognized that way, and then run scandisk on it. Good luck!