Take out the old drive, it is either already toast or soon will be.  Be sure to reset the jumper on the new drive as master solo rather than master with slave.



Stephen R Stanfield <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Hello All,  first of all i don't know where subject line went, but not the
>the topic of this query. a few months ago i installed an 80 gb hd on pc.
>old hd was showing signs of failure and was advised by this forum to install
>new hd and how.  installed new hd and left old hd as slave after copying
>data to new hd.  all was well until last week when computer locked up. upon
>re-booting, red screen with 'hard drive not found'  i turned it off and let
>it sit for a few hours and pc booted just fine. then messages started
>popping up from security shield-Windows-Delayed Write Failed    Windows was
>unable to save all the data for the file E:.  The data has been lost.  This
>error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network
>connection.  Please try to save this file elsewhere.
>
>
>
>my hd is partioned into two drives. C and D  with E being old drive.  Can I
>physically remove old hd and resolve problem?
>
>
>
>Windows XP Home sp2
>
>1.73gh AMD Athlon XP
>
>1024 Mb ram
>
>
>


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