new HD

[CortJstr]

Ugh. I'm still not done. For whatever reason I can't get anything to see both drives. I take that back, they know the other drive is present but can't read any data off of it. So I installed XP on the new drive and I'm shuttling data from the old one via an intermediary computer on my network. Joy!

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Ugh. I'm still not done. For whatever reason I can't get anything to see both drives. I take that back, they know the other drive is present but can't read any data off of it. So I installed XP on the new drive and I'm shuttling data from the old one via an intermediary computer on my network. Joy!

Which drive can't you use? The new one? You did format and set up the partitions?
You do only have two IDE HD's in (the most windows can support - more joys of SATA)?

[jough]

Actually, most Intel motherboards support up to 4 IDE drives natively.

I have three in my desktop, plus a CD-RW on the fourth IDE.

You just have to jumper them correctly:

Primary Master
Primary Slave
Secondary Master
Secondary Slave

And I used to have 6 HDs with an add-on PCI IDE controller card.

Windows supports up to 26 fixed and removeable drives (each may assume a drive letter - a letter of the alphabet).

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I've never been comfortable with what it told me, since I was sure at one time I had three IDE HD's in my machine. But last time I tried to add a third in, fortunately only to swap files, I was told by windows that it only allowed 2 IDE hard drives at any time. Which seems odd since they oughtn't differ except for write transfer to a CD device.
What I can only assume is it's something to do with the SP version I was on at the time (or lack of probably), since they were definitely in the right jumper setup, and I tried alternatives.

Anyway, screw IDE is all I can say now!

Asides: The news I don't know if was mentioned here but the furor over the use of slave and master in IDE specification? Despite it being described for that usage in the dictionary, and the fact that it's official standard terminology.
I forgot the other one.

[CortJstr]

It was weird. The Maxtor software could see both my drives and it could tell my old one was 32.xGB but it couldn't actually see there were any files on it.

So I tried Ghost and it was the same way. When I formatted the new drive as NTFS and installed XP it told me the old drive was working in device manager but wouldn't actually let me in.

So finally I just said fuck it. I'm moving the files from the old drive to my SO's computer over our network, disconnecting the old drive, then pulling them back from her machine onto my new drive w/ XP.

I was planning on disconnected the old one anyway. It's always been on the loud side but it's just been getting rediculous. The only problem is that her computer was bargain when it was new (Celeron) and now is just sad. Everytime I boot it I have to kill a half dozen tray programs just to keep it stable.

[jough]

If you run "MSConfig" from the "Run..." menu you can turn off the startup programmes that you don't use.

Of course, you can also do this by deleting those keys in the registry.  Just make sure you don't wipe out anything you actually need.

I'm just forever killing Quicktime and Real startup crap.

[CortJstr]

If you run "MSConfig" from the "Run..." menu you can turn off the startup programmes that you don't use.

Of course, you can also do this by deleting those keys in the registry.  Just make sure you don't wipe out anything you actually need.

I'm just forever killing Quicktime and Real startup crap.

Thanks. I knew there was a way to do that (I'd used it on DirectCD before) but couldn't remember what it was.

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If you run "MSConfig" from the "Run..." menu you can turn off the startup programmes that you don't use.

You people and your scary versions of Windows (although due to some missing files every time I install 2k I think I may have to try XP again soon. I once had it on this machine, dual booted, for two weeks...).

[jough]

God, I hate XP.  I kinda like 2000, but I've just downloaded Mandrake Linux to put on my old laptop and am REALLY looking forward to it.