Hard Drive Installation Question [View All]

[jokerman93]

My XP machine currently has two hard drives installed. The primary boot drive is partitioned into two virtual drives C:\ and E:\. Currently the C:\ doesn't boot - not even in safe mode and the XP install disk can't repair the problem. I believe the data directories are still intact however.

I've opened the machine and can't identify which HD is currently the primary boot drive and which is secondary.

I want to install a new 120G hard drive as my primary boot drive and (if possible) copy my personal files from the two current hard drives already installed. This will require changing out the drives and switching the jumpers on them from primary to secondary and so forth. I can't find a simple explanation of the correct jumper configs, how to identify them or how to change them.

Any tips, explanations, or leads to info would be greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks in Advance,
Jokerman