PLease Help Switching hard drives

[Big2hd]

First off i'm tired, it's 8 o'clock and I started this easy migrating task a little after the tom green show (he's funny dude ). Not laughing anymore, ok here's the deal I d/l acronis migrate crap, install it, free up a little space on the drive that I planned on booting on from now on. Everything going good tells me to shutdown. I change to jumpers from mas to sla and vice versa. When get the computer back together it boots fine, I put my pass and user in on the log on screen tells me that it is logging off but it hangs, i mean if you're going to tell me your logging off, then do so. So in short does anybody know a way or program that turn bigger ntfs drive to master and my fat32 drive as the slave for someone who is retarded like me, and thx in advance!!

[dunbar]

I wonder if it is a hardware issue.... If both drives are on the same IDE bus (same cable), then the older drive might be pushing the newer drive to a less compatible mode.... can you put the older drive on a different IDE bus, and try running that way to see if everything shutsdown without hanging?

HTH, and welcome to TechIMO!

[Mickwish]

Linky to acronis thingy please? I dunno what it is supposed to do.

Thanks
Mick

[Mickwish]

Um, why not try to just put ONE drive in at a time for starters. Start with the drive you just copied ONTO (ie the one you want to use as new which acronis copied all the data onto).

I think it might be a boot issue, where it is detecting the OLD partition and trying to boot form it, rather than the new partition. What OS is it? XP or 2k, I presume?

Cheers
Mick