hi there...
can u help me figure out whats wrong with my installation...
i bought 1 maxtor 40gb hard disk. first, i tried to backup my old files from my old hdd. what i did is, is connect my new hdd to the primary slave ide, and power cable while my old one is connected to the primary master and power cable. but when i started the backup i cant detect my new hard disk, isn't it in the backup wizard there is portion there that will ask you where do i want to backup my files? but the browse window couldnt find my new hard disk installed, only the floppy drive.
then... i went to the control panel and click the system icon and selected the device manager, then i point to the hardware, and surprisingly my new maxtor hdd is detected there and said its working properly.
then... i decided to just install win xp OS to my new maxtor hdd. first i removed the old hdd and transfer my new hdd from the primary slave to the primary master and power cable then i reboot my computer and then press "del" to go to the bios/cmos, i have seen like this:
primary master [none]
primary slave [none]
secondary master [samsung cd-rom]
etc...
does it means my system cant detect my new hdd?
though im so confused i continued installing the OS...what i did is reboot the and insert the Win xp installer, i made a partition on the c: drive and started the NTFS installation. after, it says something like "the winxp installation is successful. your computer will reboot in 10 secs. if you want to reboot press enter... after your computer reboots it will continue to windows setup." but i didn't press enter i just wait... but then, when its done rebooting it started to the windows setup again..
i really dont know whats wrong, i hope you can help me about this matter... thank you!!
jazzy