hi i am trying to upgrade my brothers pc.. however when i boot i have gone through all kinds of errors after fixing them i am not getting a Primary Slave Hard Disk Fail error during POST the new specs are: AMd 2700+ Asus - a7vn8x-x with a 60gb maxtor hard drive a cdrom n dvd rom on the secondary (work fine) 128 mb geforce fx 5200 (PCI) anyway I've updated the BIOS, cleared CMOS and still nothing.. the most i had the new setup working was it detected all ide drives (hard drive model name n number was shown) and it booted up to the windows screen where it said 'not shut down properly, choose how you want to start up this time' and it lists normal windows, safe mode, etc. anyway when i chose an option here (safe mode) a blue screen of death would flash and then the system would reboot... now however i dont even have the hdd detected and I get the primary slave (for some reason it is bootin as a slave, note its the only drive on the primary) disk failure error... please help! i have been dealing with this system for the past 5hours!! thanks in advance

Please also note this same hard drive was working in the old machin with the old mobo (intel chip, sis756 chisept i think).. so if all of a sudden it is dead, could it have been something i did during the upgrade? or is it just somethign else preventing it from working.. i really dont think it is dead because i had it detected before but windows would boot up, flash a blue screen and then reboot.

if thats an xp harddrive, you won't take it outta one computer and boot it in another thank bill gates for that one. you'll need to reinstall windows.

Its unclear what you are trying to upgrade...the HDD or the mobo or the whole system ? If your trying to install an old HDD with XP already installed , then that is probably the issue. XP is looking for the old configuration which is not there so hence the failure. Regardless, during POST the Bios must see and configure the hardware correctly. Install the old or new drive as primary master , select the jumpers on the drives according to the manuf. instructions. Configure the drives in the Bios as "auto" , save and exit. It should see the drives correctly during POST. If not then the drives are not jumpered right or the cable is bad or connected wrong. Once the drives are detected correctly during POST , then you can boot from the XP cd and perform a clean install or a repair install . http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Are you sure the HDD is jumpered correctly? Was it a slave HDD in the old setup? Also, maybe try flashing an old version of the BIOS. On one of my PC, several BIOS versions (including the very latest) will end up with the computer unable to detect any ide drives...I had to flash back to a previous version to get the HDD to be detected (and yes, BIOS settings were set to auto)

well im not sure how i did it but i rechecked the ide cables, used a new jumper n played around with the jumper settings some more but i finally got thehard drive to be recognized.. so thank you. however now during win xp installation (btw i formatted the hard drive so this is a completely fresh install), i get a Kernel_Data_Inpage_error, i really hope this isnt faulty hardware, i am goin to look this up now but anyone who can help me here, plz do... thanks again

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prmd_stp_fvlq.asp Make sure you have installed the mobo drivers and updated them and Windows.