?'s about moving boot files !!

[jlohojo7]

RECYCLER FOLDER
click it i has
the bin icon
S-1-5-21-3290
68152-926492
609-72534554
3-1004

ALSO HAS A system volumne information fold that is empty
if you click it a messgage pops up and says E:\ system volumne info is not accessible access is denied

this is all it shows

[Chewy]

now look at the C/system drive and see if the boot files are there, open boot.ini file with notepad and copy and paste into reply

you should be seeing ntdetect, config, autoexec, ntldr, etc

[jlohojo7]

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

[Chewy]

do you see those system files on C ?

[jlohojo7]

yes i see all those that you listed

[Chewy]

Well I didn't think what you have would even work, windows won't boot unless
there's an active partition, I have seen boot files on other partitions from the system partition.

the next step is dangerous, cause you might not get it to boot after making the change, afaik the only thing keeping c from booting is setting that partition active

[jlohojo7]

so what do you think i should do i am up for whatever

why is that small partitioned drive active ??

[jlohojo7]

well i promised my gf i would go over there so i guess i gotta head out i will be back on here tomorrow round 5 if you could help finish off this problem

thanks so much

joe

[Chewy]

google wd jumper settings, that's your problem also

[jlohojo7]

i need to change those i finally set the large hd to master and the small POS to slave and got my encryption time to under 30 mins from 5 hours.

I just really want to get rid of that drive all together oyu konw toss it in the t-rash

[Chewy]

large drive will need to be set to active in disk management

if the computer booted with large drive as master then bios is set to auto

you will have to change large drive jumper to standalone master when you
remove the pos drive

[jlohojo7]

alright chewy before i go to work heres where i stand!

I disconnected the old HDD and set the new HDD jumper to PM2 i dont know what that is and it boots up fine there is also one right next to it that is not labeled and it boots up fine what is the unlabeled one and should i just leave it on pm2

P.S. my new samsung drive is still slower then dirt !!

the order of the jumpers from left to right is if you already didnt know i dont know if they are always the same order
cs sl ms blank pm2

it now shows that dma is multi word dma 5 or something like that.
Surely we are getting close to getting that new drive figured out right ?? Am i going to need a diffrent HDD for that one to run at its proper speed for that is all that i am really after here.

regards and thanks so much for all you have done for me chewy honestly sorry if ive been a pain

[Chewy]

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=84&p_created=1005005461&p_sid=u*mY4jfi&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NDMmcF9wcm9kcz05MSwwJnBfY2F0cz0xMjMmcF9wdj0xLjkxOzIudTAmcF9jdj0xLjEyMzsyLnUwJnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9YW5zd2Vycy5zZWFyY2hfZm5sJnBfcGFnZT0xJnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9anVtcGVyIHNldHRpbmdz&p_li=&p_topview=1

for the newer drive as single drive(no other drive on cable)
western digital drives are unique in this regard

[jlohojo7]

so yuo think i should not jumper it bc i got a 10 pin and it is now the only drive on the IDE cable ??

ARe you lost on the samsung issue ?? thats what i am after pal. thanks again

[Chewy]

let's make sure we have the jumpers set right for the hard drive

too confusing