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by caladan67

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My current HDD is showing signs of failure (new Windows XP 5 times this year) but the partitions have been sound. I have a second HDD with Windows XP on it, but it's Disk 1 not 0. How do I make new HDD the primary bootable? It is on a separate cable from the MB and shows itself as Drive 1. Windows is on G partition on the new drive. I want to move everything from the old drive to this one and then install another new one for my weekly Backups. ATA, not SATA. MB is not SATA compatible. Write slow because I am slow to pick this stuff up ;-). Questions? Let me know. Thx.

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by internetspider

This you can select from your main board Bios boot sequence and if you want to make it primary you have to change the jumper on each drive
Primary>Boot = Master
Primary>Other= Slave
or
Primary> = Standalone > Boot
Secondary= Standalone

what kind of drive these?

Its written on the back or side of your HDD, on Primary Data Cable set your jumper from wher you want to boot as MASTER and the other one set to Slave otherwise of you have two data cables set standalone on each Data cable on Primary and the secondary.

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