Installing second harddrive, now not booting.

[jeromebrill]

I just redid my computer and for some reason after getting everything going fine on my first HD I put back in my second one which I use for games. It wont find the OS. It just says "No OS" I have tried all the master slave and cable select combinations. If I boot into bios and select the correct drive to boot from is will still come up and say "No OS" If I unplug the second drive it boots fine. Also what it does is shows the _ cursor when tring to boot but then after 3 seconds it drops one line and ties to load again then will say "No OS" My first drive is a 40GB Seagate with my OS then my second is a 160GB Wesern Digital. The only thing I noticed on the Seagate that it has pin selections of "Master/No slave" - "Cable Select" and "37GB Cap".

Thanks

[glc]

Use an 80 wire cable and jumper them both Cable Select - and do not put the cap jumper on. Blue end to mobo, black end to OS drive, middle connector to slave.

[jeromebrill]

I ran it like that and it didn't work. Actually it says "Error loading OS" I didnt change my connection to last having everything hooked up. I just used my other drive that still had my OS installed. I set it up as master slave with the drives. It boots up, and windows detects my 160 fine. I'm sure if I set it as cable select is would work too. I don't know why it wont work with my seagate. That sucks, the drive that I just put in has the blue screen of death once and a while. I just spent four hours reinstalling and updating with my seagate. anymore suggestions?

[ITlover]

Which OS do u have on your other HDD?

I think you are having this problem because both HDD have different brands.

Have you tried using Western Digital on other PC having Seagate HDD?

[ITlover]

Their can be a driver issue, or IRQ issue.

[glc]

IT, wrong on both counts.

Try putting the hard drives on separate IDE channels as masters, and slave the optical drives to them. Use 80 wire cables and CS jumpering on all drives.

[jeromebrill]

I have XP on both HDs. It's just one computer. Ive kept the installation on the other drive because I had data I still needed from it. Anyways I'm about to go out and by a SATA300 drive and quit this IDE crap. It's just odd that I can hook it up with my other drive with my old installation of xp and just do a Cable select or master/slave and it loads the OS and it reads the 160GB fine. This seagate just wont work. I didn't try what you said glc. I'm thinking that would work but this is temporary. Well less temporary now if I can get it to work with my 160 but that's ok. I'm better off with a new drive anyways. Thank you guys for your help.