Author Topic: Installing Hard Drive with USB keyboard (Read 344 times)

wells · « **on:** March 25, 2002, 03:00:16 AM »

The keyboard doesn't work when trying to boot from a bootdisk (win98)? So, the new drive became the slave to the old drive. Now, if I copy all the windows folders over to the new drive, then disconnect the old drive and set the jumpers so the new drive becomes master, will it boot up?

straffo · « **Reply #1 on:** March 25, 2002, 03:41:30 AM »

not sure at all as there would be some files not copied ...

Some mainboard have USB keyboard support build-in ,check in your Bios options if you can enable this.

Staga · « **Reply #2 on:** March 25, 2002, 03:59:34 AM »

I believe you need a program like Norton Ghost to copy your HD to another disk.

Edit: I have Norton Ghost 5.1, email me if you need it.
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beet1e · « **Reply #3 on:** March 29, 2002, 10:59:43 AM »

Wells,

I went through all that. I have two hard drives. The original one was plugged into the Primary IDE port. I added a second drive and plugged it into the Secondary IDE port. It's an IBM Deskstar (40GB). I used the IBM utility, Disk Manager 2000) to copy the contents of the old drive to the new. But obviously I wanted to boot and run from the new drive. You might be able to switch the plugs around, but what I do is this: At boot up time, press your Delete key to get into the BIOS setup. In there, go to the boot sequence settings. You should see your legacy floppy drive, then your two hard drives in the list. Change the setting for your hard drives, so that booting up takes place from the new drive.

When boot up is complete, you will see that your NEW drive is now Drive C, and the old one will be Drive D (although W2000 assigns drive letters a little differently). The disk you boot from will always be drive C.

If you made your new disk a slave to the old one, did you check the jumper settings on the disk? I would recommend that you plug the new one into the Secondary IDE and make it the master there. Whatever you do, the jumper settings on both disks must reflect their true master/slave status.

bloom25 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 29, 2002, 05:20:53 PM »

Wells, I put this in your other thread, but all you need to do to get the keyboard to work is go into the bios and enable "Legacy USB support" (or something similar). How you are going to get into the bios without a keyboard is another matter though...