This is quite strange. For one you want to make sure both drives on that
channel are cable select. For another the fact the op sys hangs we need to
know when this happens. Does the machine ever get out of the POST? This is
usually an indication there is a loss of the op sys recognizing the new
hardware. That I suspect is the issue. If it works in XP then is should
work in Win2000. The NTFS version is different in XP than it is in Win2000
but automatically the Win2000 should set the File System to its version of
NTFS. I would just try again changinhg Master to last connection on Cable
(No Cable Select) and put the slave on the first connector (No Cable
Select). Try it and see it is not a major overhaul.

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George Hester
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"Citizen Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
news:450e87f2.71628687@news-server.houston.rr.com...
> On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:15:54 -0400, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>
> >>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?
>
> They are not working when I put the Seagate in. Otherwise they work
> fine.
>
> >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.
>
> That would defeat my purpose of being able to put the drive in a
> removable bay and mount it as either master or slave. I must have CS
> or else I cannot use the drive.
>
> >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).
>
> Likewise putting it on another IDE channel defeats my purpose.
>
> I did not spend much time with this because if it didn't work with the
> configuration I connected it to, I could not use it.
>
>
> --
>
> "There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress."
> --Mark Twain
>