Guest Tcs Posted September 14, 2007 Posted September 14, 2007 Ever since I upgraded to a newer PC several months ago, I've been planning on assembling another PC, to use primarily as a server, but to also be available as a "backup" to my primary PC. Because this was my intent, I purchased an indentical motherboard, the same amount of RAM, the same CPU, etc. As it turns out, the only difference between the two is that because I'm using two different style cases, I have to reduce the number of drives in my "backup" box by one. So I omitted one optical drive. Note that I also use removable cartridges for my hdds, so installing, removing, swapping one or more drives is as easy as shutting down, unlocking, removing and then inserting, locking and booting up. Last week my primary PC died. So it was time to assembl;e my "backup" box, which I had not yet done... Everything seemed to be going along fine, until the last moment, so to speak. After the POST, when the disk was supposed to be read, I got an error message: A disk read eror occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart If I do the three finger salute, I come right back to the very same place. There is one other thing that's different in this process, and it's something that I do NOT understand. On my primary PC, the one that died, my system drive is drive 0 ( 'PRIMARY MASTER' ). For some reason, and this may be why I can't boot it up, I don't know, my VERY SAME DRIVE...is showing up as 'THIRD MASTER'. ( I have the standard on board IDE controller for both Primary & Secondary, and I also have a PCI IDE controller installed, hence the 'third'. ) At any rate, I cannot figure out what's going on. I was hoping that perhaps soneone out there might have a clue, suggestion, thought...whatever. Any help you might provide would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Tom
Guest Harry Ohrn Posted September 14, 2007 Posted September 14, 2007 Re: "Backup" PC A couple of thoughts. Ensure that the drive you want to boot off of is connected to the primary controller and the jumper is set as Master or Master/with Slave if you have a Slave on the same controller. Check the BIOS and look for a setting for boot order or boot sequence. You should be able to set which drives boot in which order. -- Harry Ohrn MS MVP [shell\User] http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp "Tcs" <someone@somewhere.org> wrote in message news:6k9le3tm5t35704m0lageg6dfeie1eggbi@4ax.com... > Ever since I upgraded to a newer PC several months ago, I've been planning > on assembling another PC, > to use primarily as a server, but to also be available as a "backup" to my > primary PC. Because this > was my intent, I purchased an indentical motherboard, the same amount of > RAM, the same CPU, etc. As > it turns out, the only difference between the two is that because I'm > using two different style > cases, I have to reduce the number of drives in my "backup" box by one. > So I omitted one optical > drive. Note that I also use removable cartridges for my hdds, so > installing, removing, swapping one > or more drives is as easy as shutting down, unlocking, removing and then > inserting, locking and > booting up. > > Last week my primary PC died. So it was time to assembl;e my "backup" > box, which I had not yet > done... > > Everything seemed to be going along fine, until the last moment, so to > speak. After the POST, when > the disk was supposed to be read, I got an error message: > > A disk read eror occurred > Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart > > If I do the three finger salute, I come right back to the very same place. > > There is one other thing that's different in this process, and it's > something that I do NOT > understand. On my primary PC, the one that died, my system drive is drive > 0 ( 'PRIMARY MASTER' ). > For some reason, and this may be why I can't boot it up, I don't know, my > VERY SAME DRIVE...is > showing up as 'THIRD MASTER'. ( I have the standard on board IDE > controller for both Primary & > Secondary, and I also have a PCI IDE controller installed, hence the > 'third'. ) > > At any rate, I cannot figure out what's going on. I was hoping that > perhaps soneone out there might > have a clue, suggestion, thought...whatever. Any help you might provide > would be appreciated. > Thanks in advance, > > Tom
Guest db ´¯`·.. > Posted September 14, 2007 Posted September 14, 2007 Re: "Backup" PC the jumpers on the harddrive may not be shorted correctly. -- db ·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·..><)))º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><)))º>¸. ><)))º>·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·.. ><)))º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><)))º> .. "Tcs" <someone@somewhere.org> wrote in message news:6k9le3tm5t35704m0lageg6dfeie1eggbi@4ax.com... > Ever since I upgraded to a newer PC several months ago, I've been planning on > assembling another PC, > to use primarily as a server, but to also be available as a "backup" to my > primary PC. Because this > was my intent, I purchased an indentical motherboard, the same amount of RAM, > the same CPU, etc. As > it turns out, the only difference between the two is that because I'm using > two different style > cases, I have to reduce the number of drives in my "backup" box by one. So I > omitted one optical > drive. Note that I also use removable cartridges for my hdds, so installing, > removing, swapping one > or more drives is as easy as shutting down, unlocking, removing and then > inserting, locking and > booting up. > > Last week my primary PC died. So it was time to assembl;e my "backup" box, > which I had not yet > done... > > Everything seemed to be going along fine, until the last moment, so to speak. > After the POST, when > the disk was supposed to be read, I got an error message: > > A disk read eror occurred > Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart > > If I do the three finger salute, I come right back to the very same place. > > There is one other thing that's different in this process, and it's something > that I do NOT > understand. On my primary PC, the one that died, my system drive is drive 0 > ( 'PRIMARY MASTER' ). > For some reason, and this may be why I can't boot it up, I don't know, my VERY > SAME DRIVE...is > showing up as 'THIRD MASTER'. ( I have the standard on board IDE controller > for both Primary & > Secondary, and I also have a PCI IDE controller installed, hence the > 'third'. ) > > At any rate, I cannot figure out what's going on. I was hoping that perhaps > soneone out there might > have a clue, suggestion, thought...whatever. Any help you might provide would > be appreciated. > Thanks in advance, > > Tom
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