Hi,

If the two drives are from different era's it's possible there's a
signal conflict when you have them on the same cable?

I had a problem with a Dell computer recently where I had to set very
specific master/slave jumpers and check UDMA specs before I could get
both drives to work together. Make sure the cables are the correct spec
too (IDE vs UDMA).

Have you tried putting them on separate IDE controllers, two cables, one
master, one slave?

If it was me, I'd test both drives individually under DOS with NTFS and
UDMA drivers, then test together, and note any issues before trying to
boot Win2k.

Citizen Bob wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:50:57 -0400, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>
>>> My son gave me an older XP NTFS-formatted Seagate 20 GB drive for
>>> storage. He says it mounts just fine on his XP system. I put it on ch.
>>> 0 slave with CS and fire up Win2K, which then hangs as it attempts to
>>> mount the drive. The BIOS reports the correct drive designation.
>
>>> What's going on here? Why should mounting a known good drive be such a
>>> bloody hassle.
>
>> Do you have a Western Digital or other drive that needs a
>> different single vs master w/slave jumper setting, as ch. 0
>> Master?
>
> The boot disk is WD, but I do not understand what you mean by needing
> a different single vs master w/slave jumper setting. I use CS for all
> my drives and they all work.
>
>> What does Disk Management show?
>
> Win2K won't boot - it locks up - so I can't find out.
>
>
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>
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> --Mark Twain
>


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