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<blockquote data-quote="evilsaint" data-source="post: 275185" data-attributes="member: 544887"><p>...Dude you cannot just put a hard drive with an OS on it into your computer and expect it to boot. The 3rd drive probably has an active partition on it, required to install XP, so it is conflicting with your active partition on your C drive. A big no-no, and that's probably why it keeps freezing....</p><p></p><p>This is not entirely true. If the original drive that he was booting off of (C, I would assume) is the primary master, then it should not have any problems booting properly if the only other HD with a boot partition is on a secondary controller. i3abyjay25, are you sure you installed the drivers correctly for the ATA controller, and did you check it out in Device Manager to make sure that Win2K found it alright? That sounds like your most likely cause for the computer freezing on startup.</p><p></p><p>...The only way to properly get this to work is to install XP onto the drive once it is installed in your computer, from inside of 2000, so XP can see you already have an OS and allow it to be set to a slave drive. Then within 2000 you need to have the boot manager let you select XP as a bootable OS...</p><p></p><p>I understand what you mean by this statement, but the whole "Slave Drive" part has no relevance to this part of the situation. i3abyjay25, while you're installing XP onto a HD already installed in the computer, it might automatically configure itself to boot straight into XP instead of giving you a choice. If you still want to use 2K sometimes, or even most of the time, right-click on My Computer, click on the Advanced tab, and click the Startup and Recovery button. On the top part of the window that comes up, you can basically set all the options for the list of OS's that come up when you boot your computer i.e. length of time to display them, what you want them to be called, which specific ones to display, etc....</p><p></p><p>...You also need to make sure all of your drives are FAT32 and not NTFS, as XP will have probelms installing onto an NTFS drive formatted in 2000. XP can work on an NTFS partition, but it has to make it or it has trouble reading it, at least for the install....</p><p></p><p>What the hell are you babbling about? XP has no problem whatsoever reading an NTFS partition created by NT or 2K... He has no need for a FAT32 partition at all.</p><p></p><p>i3abyjay25, if you still need help, PM or email me and I can help ya through it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="evilsaint, post: 275185, member: 544887"] ...Dude you cannot just put a hard drive with an OS on it into your computer and expect it to boot. The 3rd drive probably has an active partition on it, required to install XP, so it is conflicting with your active partition on your C drive. A big no-no, and that's probably why it keeps freezing.... This is not entirely true. If the original drive that he was booting off of (C, I would assume) is the primary master, then it should not have any problems booting properly if the only other HD with a boot partition is on a secondary controller. i3abyjay25, are you sure you installed the drivers correctly for the ATA controller, and did you check it out in Device Manager to make sure that Win2K found it alright? That sounds like your most likely cause for the computer freezing on startup. ...The only way to properly get this to work is to install XP onto the drive once it is installed in your computer, from inside of 2000, so XP can see you already have an OS and allow it to be set to a slave drive. Then within 2000 you need to have the boot manager let you select XP as a bootable OS... I understand what you mean by this statement, but the whole "Slave Drive" part has no relevance to this part of the situation. i3abyjay25, while you're installing XP onto a HD already installed in the computer, it might automatically configure itself to boot straight into XP instead of giving you a choice. If you still want to use 2K sometimes, or even most of the time, right-click on My Computer, click on the Advanced tab, and click the Startup and Recovery button. On the top part of the window that comes up, you can basically set all the options for the list of OS's that come up when you boot your computer i.e. length of time to display them, what you want them to be called, which specific ones to display, etc.... ...You also need to make sure all of your drives are FAT32 and not NTFS, as XP will have probelms installing onto an NTFS drive formatted in 2000. XP can work on an NTFS partition, but it has to make it or it has trouble reading it, at least for the install.... What the hell are you babbling about? XP has no problem whatsoever reading an NTFS partition created by NT or 2K... He has no need for a FAT32 partition at all. i3abyjay25, if you still need help, PM or email me and I can help ya through it. [/QUOTE]
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