I recently installed a new harddrive so I could use my 2 other drives as slaves. The new ONE works great, I can access my other one through this new one, but the main one that came on the computer I'm having issues with. I go into setup, it recognizes its there, I even unplugged my cables and tryed to start it from there. I keep getting this message: We apoligize for the inconvience but Windows did not start successfully. I have all my movies lists and iTunes on there, I just want to get into that harddrive. Theres got to be a simple solution to this problem. Please helpSince we are dealing with a total of 3 HDD's you will have to provide much more relevant info as to how they are setup and jumpered and what OS you are running at this point to get any relevant answers to your current dilemna....alright sorry, im running Windows XP, the new drive is an Athlon 64 3500 2.19 GHz with 1.37 GB of Ram, my old one is a Pentium 4. Basically my friend took the harddrives from my old box and put them in his box, beefed up the ram and such. The new drive is the C drive and the old drive is the G drive. An Athlon 64 and a Pentium4 are CPU's...you are having trouble accessing your hard drives...determine what they are and post back with the info.

P.S. Your friend did you no favor by doing this as since WinXP you cannot successfully pull a HDD out of one machine and plug it up in a different machine and expect it to work...actually normally havoc ensues at this critical point.SATA Hard Drive (Serial ATA) 10,000 RPM 74 GB Raptor is the new one, the old one Western Digital 200 GB HP Pavilion a1130n is the box. The 3rd HDD which I can access is a Seagate Barracuda 250 GBOK so we know the Raptor is the new one which according to your first post can access the other one through the new one but not the main one and we still don't know which one has the Windows OS on it....

Are you getting my point here ? ?alright, the Raptor has Windows XP Media edition, the old one had XP Home edition. I can access the Seagate slave with all my music on it from the Raptor, the old one is recognized and when i go into program files everything is there, but access is denied. Did a search on every drive for my movie list on my old one, not there at allTry This...thank you, it sounds good if my computer would go into safe mode, but it keeps popping up with that message. Plus I went into my old drive I cant even find the files I want. When he did it the first time, the raptor was installed with a stripped down version of windows XP media edition. I went into STARTUP and I could access my old HDD. He took it and installed the full Media edition. Now I cant even access the old HDD.Quote

thank you, it sounds good if my computer would go into safe mode, but it keeps popping up with that message. Plus I went into my old drive I cant even find the files I want. When he did it the first time, the raptor was installed with [highlight]a stripped down version of windows XP media edition[/highlight]. I went into startup and I could access my old HDD. He took it and installed the [highlight]full Media edition[/highlight]. Now I cant even access the old HDD.

Are these both from shiney CD's that say MICROSOFT all over them?

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Are these both from shiney CD's that say MICROSOFT all over them?

I am not aware that Microsoft ever made a stripped down version of Media Center Edition.