2 Harddrive Bootup

[microsofthater]

I am attempting to add a hard-drive from my old computer to my new one. I already made one a master and the other a slave. My problem Is when I boot up my computer (running windows xp) I get my old login screen (from my slave drive) and the screen looks like it is booting in safe mode (which it is not.) Is there anyway I can remove my OS (or just the bootup files) from my 2nd harddrive. I tried using ophcrack during the boot up, but it can only access the main drive. The only way that I think it may work is if I was to only plug-in my old harddrive, and somehow format it before adding the master. Is this possible? Has anyone else had this problem?

[jscheuer1]

Sounds like you are still booting to the drive letter of the slave. This has to be changed in the BIOS.

[microsofthater]

Can you explain how to identify which drive is which in the bios, and how do I permanetely change it?

[jscheuer1]

It varies. When you first boot up, there is an option to go into the BIOS. Do that and look around. You will see something that says something like:

Boot Order

There will be choices. Pick the one that has the current drive letter of the disk you want to boot from promoted to the first, or (depending upon how this selection is offered in your BIOS), promote that drive letter to first. However it is presented, promote the drive you want to boot from to the first. Save changes and exit. You can always come back to this later and change it again, but it will otherwise be permanent.

It's also possible you already have that right (set to the letter of the new master), but that one might not be a boot disk (no OS, or not a bootable OS). So the BIOS looks for the next disk(s) in order until it finds a boot disk.

It's also possible that you only think you set the jumpers (or whatever) correctly. If not, perhaps the 'Slave' is still the Master. If it truly is the Slave, it should no longer be C. The new 'Master' should already be C and none of this messing about with the Bios should be required. You may even have two 'Master's, if so, make one of them the Slave.

[microsofthater]

Thanks, It's working fine now, The problem was that they had the same name for some wacky reason they were both drive c, but I fixed it.....