Hard Drive replacement/ master-slave setup?

I filled my old hard drive and bought a new larger one. I installed the new
one with the same cabling as the old, then I installed the old one as what I
thought would be a slave. Both are serial HDs. I can get both drives to
boot & work, but only one at a time. I was under the impression that the
days of jumpers and dip switches were over. Install the drive and XP would
sort it out. I guess not huh?
What do I need to do to get the new one as the master and the old as a
slave?
3 year old Dell, running xp-pro.

Just in case my muddy explanation isn't clear...Both drives connected, it
boots from one of them and XP doesn't see the other. Swap the data cables
at the motherboard, and it boots from the old drive but again, xp can't find
the second one it just booted from previously.

 

Check in the BIOS that the 2nd SATA
isn't turned off.
The default should be auto. Your problem
is that the
secondary SATA drive port isn't working.

 

thanks for the advice, but I fixed it. I used this terminal to go to
microsoft kb and i fould out that it was the boot.ini because I deleted
and changed partitions is what happened.

 

So you ignored the jumpers on your hard drives?

 

Thanks Pen, that did the trick. Do you have a recommendation for ghosting
software?

Thanks again!

 

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I use Norton Ghost. Acronis true Image
seems also to
get lots of good press.