Re: Hard Drive Problems

"Moosh" <> wrote in message
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| Hi folks, I just bought a new cheapy system with an 8RDA+ mainboard with a
| Athlon 2000+ on it.
|
| It has a 40 GB Samsung hard drive as master on the primary IDE super ATA
| lead. The whole system works fine with Windows XP. Much too fast for me

|
| When I attach either of my two old "data rich" small hard drives to either
| the slave plug on the super ATA lead or as slave or master on my secondary
| IDE lead, the system usually recognises the drive in the BIOS setup, but
the
| computer merely starts with the Win XP logo for a minute or so and then
goes
| black for the duration. The computer can't then be turned off with the
front
| switch. The folks who sold me the system can't figure out what the problem
| is, they say it should just work and add another drive (letter) to the
| system. The two small drives are a Fujitsu (4GB) and a Seagate (2.1GB)
|
| Anyone with any suggestions please?
|
Happy for you
John