partition magic help

[Ldsmith104]

I need to copy a partition from one drive to another however PM only sees one drive the one in the master positon on the cable, I have changed jumper settings tried and new 80 wire connector and no help it only sees one disk. if I swap drive positon it sees the other drive I just can't see them both at the same time.

[Savant]

PLZ! I went throu the same shit 2 weeks ago. looks like somes can solve both our problems

[Namloot]

What version of PM do you have?

You running WinXP?

This may seem like a dumb question, but do you have the empty partition formatted?

[Savant]

Not sure about Ldsmith, but in my case, all i wanted to do was add a 2nd drive, and be able to transfer info from 1 drive to the other, the original drive a 80gig is starting to make noise, ive heard this is not good....i have sitting here a brand new 80 gig, and like Ldsmith I tried every possible jumper combo, nothng worked it only sees the original drive.


running XP

[Schrapnel]

Is it setup in the bios? If it doesn't see it there, XP never will.

Schrapnel

[-HaVoC-]

That is the first step. You have to verify the bios is seeing both drives first.

[Savant]

In Bios the best i could get was, drive 1 recognized, drive 2 unknown device, and no matter what i did in here it never got better than this

The worst it was, was both drives unknown, to this day what ever i did my pc wont boot automatically, have to wait for it to say, f1 to continue or f2 for setup, i hit f1 then it boots no problem, browsing f2 gives absolutely no clue as to whats wrong

should have called the geek squad.....

[yaDad]

what kind of drive is it(make,model, etc.)?

again make sure the jumpers are set correctly and dont use CS(cable select).

is one of these drives the one with your OS?
if it has your OS on one it needs to be on the primary IDE channel in the master position.

does this happen on both IDE channels?

lots of data that needs to be filled here.....b4 solution presents itself.

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[Ldsmith104]

okay let me see if I can fill in the gaps.

PM 8

two separate drives have tried each one individually on both cable connectors by itself and can see each drive.

Jumpers have tried cable select, master, slave no jumper at all

yes both IDE channels

Seagate drive 160 gb both same model

If I put both drives on the cable at the same time doesn't matter witch position I have tried them both I can only see one drive.

Operating system doesn't matter I am booting to dos right from PM CD.

Not sure if the bios is seeing both drives will check that.

[[ecgn] btt]

Originally posted by Savant
In Bios the best i could get was, drive 1 recognized, drive 2 unknown device, and no matter what i did in here it never got better than this

The worst it was, was both drives unknown, to this day what ever i did my pc wont boot automatically, have to wait for it to say, f1 to continue or f2 for setup, i hit f1 then it boots no problem, browsing f2 gives absolutely no clue as to whats wrong

should have called the geek squad.....

To get you pc to auto boot again try checking your boot path in "msconfig" This is all the help I got the rest of that stuff looks greek to me.

[TChicken]

If you havent figured it out yet, check the manufacturers web site. Some have install programs that you can download to do all this stuff for you.