Maxtor 6Y080L0 only works in one system.

[Logistics]

Re: Maxtor 6Y080L0 only works in one system.

So, the drive (the 6Y080L0)... are you saying that it works, you can access it and everything, you just can't boot from it? I'm still trying to figure that part out.

When I put it into another system it doesn't even try to boot. I installed XP onto a different drive so I can at least access the files.

[SuperDuty]

Re: Maxtor 6Y080L0 only works in one system.

I've swapped hard drives many times with Windows 7 and I had no problem so far. With Windows XP, I've rarely been able to even make it to Windows, it generally crashes during loading with a BSOD for a 1/10th of a second.

[cheapie]

Re: Maxtor 6Y080L0 only works in one system.

So, the drive (the 6Y080L0)... are you saying that it works, you can access it and everything, you just can't boot from it? I'm still trying to figure that part out.

[Logistics]

Re: Maxtor 6Y080L0 only works in one system.

I finally got around to trying that and it still didn't get anything but a blinking cursor. Oh, well I'll just start fresh. I installed xp on this system with one of my old clunker drives and it ran great. I was going to use the SCSI drive my cousin gave me, but then I realized it was a 15k rpm cheetah and I don't have any drive cooling.

[seanc]

Re: Maxtor 6Y080L0 only works in one system.

Try the MBR, but before you do, put it into the original system and install the disk controller drivers for the new system, then set the controller drivers to standard IDE, that should ensure you don't get a stop 7B on the new PC.

[Logistics]

Re: Maxtor 6Y080L0 only works in one system.

It depends on the cpu and chipset of the two boards. I think what you are seeing is the hard drive controller drivers of the first board are not compatible with the drivers of the other boards. If you have the windows disk, you could boot on it and do a windows repair. The second option is to put it back in the original system and change the hard drive controller drivers to the standard drivers that come with windows, and then when you put it in the other system it will trigger plug & play to load the correct driver. The third and best option is to reload windows from scratch and reload all programs and data.

That is good info. I appreciate that, actually. And I am with you as far as a clean install. Soon as Paps saves his data, I'm gonna wipe the MBR on that drive and low-level it; start fresh. Probably, align it with Paragon while I'm at it.

[goontron]

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/\ wow

[shovenose]

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also, you can't spell 6Y080L0 without YOLO.

Whew, I'm not the only one who saw this!

[Uranium-235]

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is the jumper set to CS? some systems don't like some hard drives CS

also, you can't spell 6Y080L0 without YOLO. Just saying, it might be an asshole drive.

[goontron]

Re: Maxtor 6Y080L0 only works in one system.

no you cant really swap drives like that. the only drive swap that was successfully was from and old dell optiplex with a slower p4 to a newer dell optiplex with a faster p4(from on with a xp home key to an xp pro key) with no problem.

and then there is LINUX where you can swap the same HDD from different machine to different machine to different machine 20 times then back to the origin machine and it runs fine on all of them!

[Spitz]

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I keep trying to swap my dads hard drive into another system, but it just sits at a blinking cursor when it comes time to begin loading Windows in any other system besides the HP its sitting in. Is this some sort of strange security measure?

It depends on the cpu and chipset of the two boards. I think what you are seeing is the hard drive controller drivers of the first board are not compatible with the drivers of the other boards. If you have the windows disk, you could boot on it and do a windows repair. The second option is to put it back in the original system and change the hard drive controller drivers to the standard drivers that come with windows, and then when you put it in the other system it will trigger plug & play to load the correct driver. The third and best option is to reload windows from scratch and reload all programs and data.

[Logistics]

Re: Maxtor 6Y080L0 only works in one system.

It's hard to imagine it being anything, but auto-detected in a P4, but that's a good question, and ill check. Thank you.

[kc8adu]

Re: Maxtor 6Y080L0 only works in one system.

was the drive autodetected in the original box or a oddball chs setting?
i run into this on old stuff all the time.

[Logistics]

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True, it doesn't always work, and in my experience it usually doesn't... at least not cleanly. But I would expect Windows to at least try to boot, to get errors and fail, but not get a blinking cursor.

Oh, well it will just give me a good excuse to let him tool around on his new 478-based system he just got for free so I can keep my Dual Xeon rig, which I just found out has two 3.2GHz 1MB L3 Gallatins, which I was going to order for it because I thought I had the regular ones with 1MB L2.

[ChaosLegionnaire]

Re: Maxtor 6Y080L0 only works in one system.

exactly what version of windows is in there? from the size of the hard disk im guessing its either windows 2000 or xp.

You can't just move Windows to another computer. You have to re install it.

if its winxp in there, ditto. esp the oem ones. booting it on a different machine *might* also mess up the WPA. your copy of windows might just end up being deactivated by m$ if they detect that copy of windows is being used on a different computer it was installed on.

the proper way to do it is to boot a linux distro off a live cd (ubuntu etc.) or mini-xp from hiren's boot cd.

Technically, since 95 you're supposed to be able to just swap.

if its the ancient dos kernel based windows os-es like 95/98/me yes. but if its the winnt kernel based os-es like 2000/xp, no, it does not necessarily work that way.

[Logistics]

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I'm trying to keep it untouched. I would throw mbrwizard at it if I was starting fresh

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: Maxtor 6Y080L0 only works in one system.

but it just sits at a blinking cursor

Clear the MBR.

[Logistics]

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You can't just move Windows to another computer. You have to re install it.

That's the way I've always done things, and yet my paps has done this a few times. Technically, since 95 you're supposed to be able to just swap. But since I don't consider this clean, I always format and reinstall.

I'm not sure if I can access it in a different system as I haven't put it in a system with an up and running OS, but i definitely can't boot from it in a different system.

[cheapie]

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It's an ata drive. I put the drive in a different 478 system and then my 604 based server and both just do the blinky cursor when I should be loading Windows.

So you can access it from a different computer, you just can't boot from it?

[shovenose]

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You can't just move Windows to another computer. You have to re install it.