that battery i belive is called the cmos battery. and my best adivice
jiggle the power cord.
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William from NOLA
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What do you have (I'm talking everything here :) )?
As long as FAT32 and NTFS are on different hard drives, XP will be totally fine with it. It is a bad idea to use two different file systems on the same drive in different partitions.
As for your boot problem, is it showing the POST screen? If it is not, then reset your CMOS (can do by taking out the computer battery for a few seconds, but your computer MUST be unplugged!)
Make sure you have the hard drive that you want to boot up set as master and the other as slave.
As long as FAT32 and NTFS are on different hard drives, XP will be totally fine with it. It is a bad idea to use two different file systems on the same drive in different partitions.
As for your boot problem, is it showing the POST screen? If it is not, then reset your CMOS (can do by taking out the computer battery for a few seconds, but your computer MUST be unplugged!)
Make sure you have the hard drive that you want to boot up set as master and the other as slave.
A.K.A. megahurts4 :: Member since: July 19, 2002 
its 2 seperate NTFS drives, the smaller (that i boot from) is the master, the larger with the access denied problem is the slave... i've got all that set up right. The POST screen is fine.
I'm more concerned with getting the files off the larger drive... i need to get around the access denied shat. Also my father brought this up- could i use the "save hardware config" option and load it onto the other drive, and then boot up with the other drive to recover those files? would that work?
PC specs:
basic ass case, 320w PSU
ASRock mobo (unsure of exact model)
AMD Athlon XP 3200+ CPU
512MB Ram
60GB maxtor, primary master boot drive
80GB maxtor, secondary slave, not boot drive, thats the one with the issue.
some cheap geforce card.. it owrks.
we may buy a whole new pc for christmas though. I'd start building it now, but i want to get the lights behind my dash going first.
I'm more concerned with getting the files off the larger drive... i need to get around the access denied shat. Also my father brought this up- could i use the "save hardware config" option and load it onto the other drive, and then boot up with the other drive to recover those files? would that work?
PC specs:
basic ass case, 320w PSU
ASRock mobo (unsure of exact model)
AMD Athlon XP 3200+ CPU
512MB Ram
60GB maxtor, primary master boot drive
80GB maxtor, secondary slave, not boot drive, thats the one with the issue.
some cheap geforce card.. it owrks.
we may buy a whole new pc for christmas though. I'd start building it now, but i want to get the lights behind my dash going first.
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William from NOLA
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Do you have another open IDE port on the mobo? I'd try another IDE cable and making that 80 gig the master on that one.
Make sure the drive doesn't have a pin/jumper configuration taht actually locks the drive. I hate the "guides" on some hard drives, they don't give you a frame of reference and you can't tell up from down!
The "save hardware config" thing is probably windows just rewriting the boot sector on the drive. I would definately do that and try to at least boot into the other drive. If I remember right, the command for rewriting the boot sector in the XP disc repair "fix mbr" (mbr stands for master boot record). I would try that on the drive you are trying to get those files off. Make sure the new drive isn't connected.
Make sure the drive doesn't have a pin/jumper configuration taht actually locks the drive. I hate the "guides" on some hard drives, they don't give you a frame of reference and you can't tell up from down!
The "save hardware config" thing is probably windows just rewriting the boot sector on the drive. I would definately do that and try to at least boot into the other drive. If I remember right, the command for rewriting the boot sector in the XP disc repair "fix mbr" (mbr stands for master boot record). I would try that on the drive you are trying to get those files off. Make sure the new drive isn't connected.
A.K.A. megahurts4 :: Member since: July 19, 2002