On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:17:30 GMT, spam@uce.gov (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.

I thought you just wrote that they're not all working?
So maybe, CS works until you come across a special
situation- I don't know, it was just a simple thing to try
since it only takes a moment to change a jumper.


>
>>What does Disk Management show?
>
>Win2K won't boot - it locks up - so I can't find out.

You might try connecting it to the other motherboard
channel, even disconnecting some other drive temporarily, if
necessary, just to confirm the drive still works (might have
been damaged in transit).