Master HD and Slave HD question

[christine1]

My question is I have a pc that has a Seagate HD Model ST3290A 250MB, which is the master, I had to temporarily add a second drive which was configured as a slave Model ST34313A (4.3GB) and used their software that came with HD, Seagate Ontrack. Well now I need to remove slave and have PC just work with Primary drive again but it will not boot when slave is removed, when slave is put back it's fine. I did email Seagate and they said I would have to call them, which with the time difference it's a little getting in touch. I was hoping there would be some words of wisdom out there! It's probably an obvious thing but Seagate couldnt even tell me by email after explaining to them everything. Thanks in advance and let me know what other info you need.

[Underclocked]

Have you transferred the operating system to the larger drive?
Have you set the larger drive's jumpers for single drive operation prior to making it the boot drive? And are you physically disconnecting the small drive when trying to boot from the larger?
Finally, you may need to enter the bios on the motherboard (if it has onboard bios, if not - that's your problem) and set the hard drive parameters per the Seagate information.

Hope some of that helps a little.

[christine1]

The larger drive was added only to load some documents that would not fit on small drive. The smaller driver has a win3.1/dos OS. Hmmm, you might be on to something here though, I assumed small drive would be the boot drive because I did not move OS or change anything with the smaller (primary HD), and the Secondary drive to be a slave (per Seagate doc) was to remove jumper which worked fine until I need to go back to original setup. In the BIOS the HD parameters are configured per Seagate which shows smaller drive when that's just in, and when second drive is added back it shows both drives with correct parameters but just wont boot with primary (smaller) driver but itself. How do I make the smaller drive the boot drive again, their software must have changed something? Thanks!

[Savant]

hmm... you might try booting from a floppy and running fdisk /mbr

[christine1]

Thank you to everyone that replied. I took "Savant's" advice and did the fdisk /mbr. It worked. All is well. Another issue solved, and without the call to Seagate!