Tring to add a second hard disk to a box running XP pro.

The second hard disk was previously the system disk for a different box also running XP pro and I want to keep the data, so it still got the windows partition on it.

I've changed the second disk to be a slave and installed it. However, when I now boot the box it blue screen on start up and gives me a 0x0000007B error - which i am lead (by google) to beleive is an inacessible boot device.

I thought I'd solved this as I repaired windows and the drives were both accesible, but I find the problem still persists. However, if I boot from the CD in to the recovery console I can see both the c: and d: drives and all my data seems ok, so I'm convince the hardware and bios are ok. If I then reboot, the machine comes up ok, but if I cold boot, the machine blue screens again.

Any ideas?

May be of use - both are maxtor disks, however, in device manager on shows as a maxtor (the one that was installed when I installed windows) the other shows as Disk drive (which I assume is generic).

TIA

Failing PSU that can't cope with the extra load of a second disk when booting from cold.

Failing PSU that can't cope with the extra load of a second disk when booting from cold.

Or more likely, that the muppet who was messing about with the boot settings in the BIOS had set it to boot from CD followed by HDD1 instead of HDD0

Oh well, only took me a day to work out!!

Don't computers make things (especially time) go faster.

Thanks for the reply though