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hi. I have (don't laugh) a pentium II non-retail processor in my current pc (333 mHz), with a 6 gig hardrive as master, and 2 40 gig seagate slaves.

i recently acquired a tower with an athlon xp 2000+ (it is my understanding that this is better, and would at least support dvd drive) and tried to remove the drives from my pentium model and install them to the athlon tower....to no success whatsoever. i would appreciate a walk-through on how to do this correctly or better yet somewhere where i can see illustrations on this topic even, granted my efforts are not misguided and futile.

incidentally, when i put the pentium back together, i am having no success whatesoever in getting either of the seagate drives to load up, in fact i must disconnect them just to get the pc to boot correctly off the master drive....please help me! i know this is within my abilities if i could just have some instruction, and i do/can not pay a professional to do this. thanx for any help you can afford.

Hya Flood09 , welcome to PCHF.

When switching the HD's around , did you made sure the jumpers on the back of the HD's where set correctly for master and slave as apropriate?

And do you also know that you have to reinstall windows when switching tower/mobo/proc ect.? If you keep the old windows install and then try to boot up , windows wil try to load drivers and settings for the old hardware and wont be able boot.

that much i do know, thanx

my main problem is that dos keeps insisting on a boot disk that i do not have to start up...... trying to download a few boot discs from l**ew*re but have not completed any as of yet......
any suggestions?

Have you checked the bootorder in youre bios?
And are the drive being detected in the bios?

And if needed you can also get bootdisks from the Bootdisk.com link below in my sig.