Thread: PC won't boot while old prime drive set to slave

Hi all,
When I attach the drive, the PC recognizes it as a inferior drive after the memory check, but then prior to it can get to the WINDOWS XP loading monitor, it goes to one more black monitor a box at the top listing the CPU details, the main drive details, the CD ROM details and the secondary drive details and then freezes with a flashing underscore at the finish of the secondary drive details.

Two points:

1. you cannot have two 'active' dividers on the similar system at the equal time. The divider on the slave drive you've fitted must not be set active - only the boot partition should be set as active.

2. Ensure the master drive is attached to the END connector on the ribbon wire, with the slave drive attached to the MIDDLE connector on the ribbon wire.