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Question I have installed a Seagate PATA 160GB HardDrive on my Compaq 6435CL. Everything appears to be working fine as a Slave drive but when I make it the Master (by itself), load Win XP Pro, it gives me a BOOT DISK FAILURE - NON-SYSTEM DISK error when it reboots the first time during XPs installation.
Am I missing something here? This doesn't appear to be rocket science. Interestingly, when it is set as a Slave, Win XP on the old drive sees it as an Active Primary partition (that is, containing a Master Boot Record).
Any thoughts on how to get it set up?
Thanks for your any input you might have.
Regards,
Todd
Answer You need to set the partition for the new drive and XP installtion to 'Active'. You can do this with the XP cd or with a bootable DOS Drive/Floppy Disk with Fdisk on it.
