Ok I just got this desktop. There are 2 hard drives a 160 GB and a 13 GB. The 160 GB is the boot drive but it is set as slave. And the 13 GB is master. I tried to take the 13 GB out and put in another 160 GB from my old computer that has all my important info. The other 160 GB I set it to slave and set the 160 GB that was in this PC as master. It would not boot up I got a system halted message. I tried makeing my old 160 GB as master and the 160 GB that was already in this one slave still would not boot up. I think this must be a Windows issue because I have tried resetting the BIOS and everything I can change related to hardware. Is there any way I can get my old 160 GB as slave and the new 160 GB as master? What happened was Windows saw the 13 GB has master but was told to use the 160 GB. I am a little stumped on this one. The system I got from a co worker for $100.00. I am not sure why he set it up the way he did I am not going to fuss much for $100.00 it was a good deal. THIS IS NOT A GATEWAY FX NOTEBOOK it made me force that I have no idea why. Jesus Loves You! Keyboard not detected. Hit F1 to Continue. BREAKFAST.SYS HALTED Cerial port not Responding!!

I had the same problem. You are not going to like my solution though. I hooked my two drives to the Second IDE connector then my new drive to the primary IDE connector. Then I installed windows fresh on my new drive and copied the files that I needed to it form the old drives. Then I pulled the one old hard drive I wanted to keep and hooked it as a Slave to the new drive. Then I had to redo the partition table and reformat it. Some how its seemed that Windows did a disk span across the old drives and that was why I could not boot or access any single one. I am not sure if this is the same problem you are having but it sounds the same.

It is the boot sector that is on the 13 gig. I may have to format. Unless I can clone that 13 GB to the 160 Gb that I am useing as slave after I get my info off. Jesus Loves You! Keyboard not detected. Hit F1 to Continue. BREAKFAST.SYS HALTED Cerial port not Responding!!

My guess is boot.ini is on the 13 gig and/or the 160 gig is not set 'active', which makes it bootable. There's some info here: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/...

The info on that site would be helpful only if I could boot to Windows to change the boot.ini. Jesus Loves You! Keyboard not detected. Hit F1 to Continue. BREAKFAST.SYS HALTED Cerial port not Responding!!

I assume you could put it back together the way it was when it was working and then take a look at boot.ini. Or use something like a bootdisk with NTFS4DOS or one of the ultimate boot cd's.