Having disk trouble

[GRAEME W]

Hi there, I am upgrading a machine that I will give to a friend.

Here's what I did:

I reinstalled windows 2000 on one hard disk. I then formatted this hard disk from my other PC. When I boot up with it in the PC I am working on, it doesn't recognise the new disk or the old one... if I go to CMOS setup and auto detect the drives it loses the original one so it can't see wither.

I ran NTBACKUP and created a system disk, hoping that fdisk might dio the trick, but I get the welcoming message 'NTLDR missing'

Oh dear oh dear, and the strangest thing is that these two disks were working fine before both in the PC running Windows Millenium.

Incidentally, I formated the second disk with FAT32, and the jumpers on the disks are definitely ok..

Where do I go next? What I thought would be a simple job is turning into a marathon! In the future computers will be tiny and fix themselves, but what do I do in the meantime???!

Any advice will be appreciated lots and lots

[Steve R Jones]

Kinda of lost me.

"I reinstalled windows 2000 on one hard disk. I then formatted this hard disk from my other PC. When I boot up with it in the PC I am working on, it doesn't recognise the new disk or the old one... if I go to CMOS setup and auto detect the drives it loses the original one so it can't see wither."

How many computers are involved here? Which computer has which drive.

[DallasDon]

Make sure you have a good four prong power plug connected. I once plugged a fan pigtail to a hard drive, (no power, DUH).

Next make sure the cable (and jumpers) are correctly connected. blue end of the IDE to the mobo, master to other end, slave in the middle.

Might try clearing the CMOS and have the comp detect the hardware again.

[paul9]

if you still have access to win me or 98, then make a boot floppy from here. or check that your floppy has boot priority over your hd.