You still have an OS on the old 20 gig drive?  It is probably trying to boot to that OS when XP is already up and running.  That would cause it to hang up. You need to clean off the OS on the old drive unless your going to set it up to dual boot.

>Hello, PCBUILD ,
>I had bought a new 40 GB Segate Baracuda 7200 RPM HDD, I already own a Fujitsu 20 GB 5200 RPM HDD, when i  installed XP (SP1 and Sp2) on the new HDD and then after installing connected the second 20 gb hdd it detects the HDD shows found new hardware and hangs, i change the master-slave settings and then booted using my old 20 Gb hdd but it does not shows new 40 gb HDD. the 40 gb HDD has a Single NTFS partition, while 20 gb has four FAT32 partitions, Pls. Help.


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