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unmountable boot volume question
Name: aceisaneight Date: December 1, 2005 at 19:47:19 Pacific OS: xp pro sp2 CPU/Ram: P4 2.4
Comment:
whenever i add a second hard drive from another system (to check for viruses and the sort) i slave it and stick it on the other ide channel. for some reason whenever i do this i get this error on the other hdd. i go to recovery console and try chksk and fixboot both run and do there thing but doesnt fix it. (had it happen twice both times i tried) so i did delete/create partition. my question is what am i doing wrong?
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Name: domass Date: December 3, 2005 at 18:22:03 Pacific
Reply:
If you put it on the other ide cable alone it is not a slave, it is the master of that ide channel. It is only slave if you have another dvd, cd or hard drive on that cable that is master and should have the jumper set accordingly. You probably know this already but just in case.
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Response Number 2
Name: aceisaneight Date: December 3, 2005 at 23:33:05 Pacific
Reply:
i think i put a cdrom on with it...just thought it is weird its happening like that
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