Sweet Jesus help me. I already had an 80Gb Seagate drive that was partitioned with one of the partitions having a copy of the original manufacturer settings with all the drivers and software loaded and the other having the rest of the drive space. So I go in to connect a new 160GB Maxtor drive and make it the slave drive so I have some extra space. I set the jumpers correctly and try and connect it with the new cable that came in the new hard drive's box. I mount the new hard drive under the old one and connect everything as it should (except I didnt plug anything into the power slot on the new hard drive because no such cable came in the package) I boot up and go into BIOS and it doesnt recognize EITHER of the drives. I unplug the new drive and try again and BIOS doesnt recognize the old drive (****) So I plug in the old cable with the old drive and leave all the new stuff out of the whole equation and it recognizes the drive.... but it says I dont have windows installed on it all of a sudden. When I look at the partitions though it shows the memory used as the exact way I had it before I started this whole ordeal (partitioned with about 64GB of the 74GB avail. used and then the other backup partition) But now it says that I need to reinstall windows (wtf?) I try to go into repair after booting off the windows disc.... it wants an admin password...I never set one seeing as I didnt want a login screen and I am the only one who uses this computer anyway. It says incorrect password when I try and enter nothing...... so then I boot from my recovery floppy disc... and it says something fails and restarts the computer... what can I do to just get things back to where they were before I tried to install this drive? Any help would be appreciated.
