Let me get this straight. Do you have two physical harddisks in your machine, connected to the same IDE cable? In that case, check the master/slave settings. Older hard drives don't support the cable select mode, you'll have to set the jumpers to master mode or slave mode. I guess you want to keep your original drive as the first drive (master) in your system, and that old hard drive as secondary (slave) drive. When you've checked the jumper settings and they're OK, try to boot from a DOS floppy disk (preferably DOS 6) and run fdisk/mbr. That'll write a clean master boot record on your drive. Hope this helps, Steven.

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