Problem booting with new slave disk

I have just installed a new internal IDE hard drive. The system was previously operating with a single disk. I have changed the jumper settings so that the original disk is set as the master and the new disk is set as slave. When I boot the system the bios report says that it recognises both the original as the master and the new disk as the slave. However, when win2000 starts to load up I get a blue screen error message saying

*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0x8187DB10,0xC0000032, 0x00000000, 0x000000000) INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

The original system disk is formatted with two partions, with win2000 operating system on the f: partion/drive (which is where it was booting from) and applications on the c: partion/drive.

Any Ideas as to why it can no longer boot from the f Drive/Partion ?

Other drives on the system are; a: - Floppy, d: - CD Drive, e:- DVD Drive. If I remove the second disk and set the jumpers back to the original single disk settings, the PC happily boots into win2000 and works fine.

Reply 1 : Problem booting with new slave disk

I don't see what the jumper was set to ORIGINALLY. While that could help me formulate an idea I find it ODD to use Master/Slave today. Given almost all drives must be on 80 conductor cables, I use the CS jumper and let the master slave be set by the cable.

Another workaround could be to add the drive to the second IDE channel.
Bob

Reply 2 : Problem booting with new slave disk

Thanks for that. Originally the disk was set as it came out of the box for single disk. (no jumper set). Will try your suggestions and post back. With CS, does it matter which physical position each disk is at on the IDE cable ? Many Thanks.

Reply 3 : Problem booting with new slave disk

But the IDE cable, jumper rules are widely documented today. I'll try to pitch in on the more obscure stuff.
Bob