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Compaq Presario 2400GHZ Windows XP Home Computer works fine, When I
> > try & connect my old secondary drive to copy data the PC stops at
> > boot up & only has the option for F1 for setup or F2 for restore. The
> > jumper over the J48 position is configuring the drive for Cable
> > Select & it was working just fine in my old PC & a secondary drive.
> > My C: drive from my old PC which is a Western Digital connects just
> > fine with my Compaq. Any Ideas as to what I can try. The Maxtor is a
> > 40GB Model 91296D6 & I have been trying to connect it by
> > disconnecting my CDR IDE cable...I also tried putting the jumpers ever
which way I could & tried using the IDE from my c: drive & not the CDRW but
it still stops with the Compaq Logo & at the bottom it says F1 Setup & F2
Restore I did notice that if I remove the jumper it comes up & says invalid
system disk
> >
> > Thanks

....and with no more than a cursory glance at the dead camel Chris decided it
was time to put the World to rights with this little gem:

> Compaq Presario 2400GHZ Windows XP Home Computer works fine, When I
>>> try & connect my old secondary drive to copy data the PC stops at
>>> boot up & only has the option for F1 for setup or F2 for restore.
>>> The jumper over the J48 position is configuring the drive for Cable
>>> Select & it was working just fine in my old PC & a secondary drive.
>>> My C: drive from my old PC which is a Western Digital connects just
>>> fine with my Compaq. Any Ideas as to what I can try. The Maxtor is a
>>> 40GB Model 91296D6 & I have been trying to connect it by
>>> disconnecting my CDR IDE cable...I also tried putting the jumpers
>>> ever
> which way I could & tried using the IDE from my c: drive & not the
> CDRW but it still stops with the Compaq Logo & at the bottom it says
> F1 Setup & F2 Restore I did notice that if I remove the jumper it
> comes up & says invalid system disk
>>>
>>> Thanks

Is the old machine new enough to be able to recognise something as
impossibly huge as a 40gig hard drive ?
--
slumpy
no more
no less
just me
(well what the **** did you expect ?)

Did you reset the jumpers on the old drive to make it a slave? If you are
booting to your new drive you can temporarily put the old drive on the
second ide connector. I don't know what kind of bios you have but make sure
the boot is to the ide 0 and no boot to ide 1, in fact disable all other
boots. Then it should have nothing to do with the old drive as it shouldn't
try to boot to it and you should be able to boot up normally and copy data.
The boot sequences are set in bios unless you have some proprietary bios
that doesn't allow this.
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> Compaq Presario 2400GHZ Windows XP Home Computer works fine, When I
> > > try & connect my old secondary drive to copy data the PC stops at
> > > boot up & only has the option for F1 for setup or F2 for restore. The
> > > jumper over the J48 position is configuring the drive for Cable
> > > Select & it was working just fine in my old PC & a secondary drive.
> > > My C: drive from my old PC which is a Western Digital connects just
> > > fine with my Compaq. Any Ideas as to what I can try. The Maxtor is a
> > > 40GB Model 91296D6 & I have been trying to connect it by
> > > disconnecting my CDR IDE cable...I also tried putting the jumpers ever
> which way I could & tried using the IDE from my c: drive & not the CDRW
but
> it still stops with the Compaq Logo & at the bottom it says F1 Setup & F2
> Restore I did notice that if I remove the jumper it comes up & says
invalid
> system disk
> > >
> > > Thanks
>
>