I recently came across a pc that had win 2000 on it and was continuing to reboot, go to scandisk and as 2000 was loading .. rebooted. I took the master hard drive (1 of 2 drives) and placed it in another unit and used partition magic to re-partion the drive to install a new operating system on the new partition, while maintaining the original faulty os on the main partition. When I placed the hard drive back in its original pc and started the pc it won;t boot. I get a hard drive error messege where it should say master, slave etc. Nor is the cd-rom recognized ( cd-rom is not atapi compatible). I even switched the ide cables, jumpers, and tried variuos combinations of the hard drive placement form master to slave and nothing works. I have gotten the messege to run setup. when I did that and had the bios automatically detect the hard drives… it list all dirves as being not installed. what do i do??
