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Thread ID: 27403	2002-11-21 20:25:00	Adding a second hard drive	Jeff Thompson (2588)	Press F1

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100346	2002-11-21 20:25:00	I have an IBM PII 300 PC which has a 3GB hard disk. I am running Windows XP (but haven't installed SP1 yet) I have salvaged an old hard drive from an old PC (a Conner Peripherals 1080MB drive) and installed it into my PC. I have connected the data port to the connector that is halfway along the data ribbon that connects to the existing hard drive. This second hard drive was used as a secondary drive in a previous PC so I have assumed that the switches were set correctly on it. When I switched on the PC, the startup process gave me the following message "162 configuration change has occurred" and then takes me into the configuration setup screen. It then tells me that there are "Resource Conflicts" with "ISA Legacy Resources". How do I fix this? If I exit the configuration setup without saving, Window starts up OK and the E: drive has been set up and maps to the new hard drive. I reformatted this drive but it has only formatted it with a capacity of 503MB (using FAT32 file system - though this didn't seem to make any difference). How can I format this drive so that uses it's full 1GB capacity? Cheers, Jeff	Jeff Thompson (2588)
100347	2002-11-21 20:29:00	The Legacy ISA I would think might have to do with you having an ISA Card installed on your PC. ISA slot's are usually right down the bottom of the motherboard (In Tower Cases), are brown, and longer than the smaller, white PCI slots. Check what ISA cards you have installed (Sound-card, Modem...), as you probably can change the IRQ in the BIOS setup. For the next question, what was it previously before taken out of a PC. It may have been half-partitioned and needs to be fully re-partitioned into one drive. Check the Partitioning FAQ for a bit of help on that one, but do be careful. Cheers Chilling_Silence	Chilling_Silence (9)
100348	2002-11-21 20:48:00	I think that this is your model: www.seagate.com Make sure in your bios setup that the correct drive parameters are set (especially number of cylinders). Check the jumpers on the hard drive especially the ATA/ISA jumper. Be aware that this drive may slow down your other hard drive ...	gibler (49)
100349	2002-11-21 20:49:00	Damn it those last three lines shouldn't be a link :(	gibler (49)
100350	2002-11-21 20:51:00	If the new drive is set to 'cable select' (CS) and it's plugged into the middle plug of your cable it will be treated as the "master" drive. So, it the existing drive is also set to "master" (MA) you will have a conflict. Ensure the the new drive is set to "slave" not "CS" I don't know if this has anything to do with the ISA problem. I would expect a IBM II 300 to have onboard IDE channels as opposed to using older ISA cards. Hope this helps.... .Les	crozier (2004)
100351	2002-11-21 20:53:00	Oops, I should have added that I would also expect a PC of that age to have some form of auto-detect for the hard drive.	crozier (2004)
100352	2002-11-21 21:42:00	Also, did you check with FDISK to see what partitions were already on the 1Gb drive? Also need to check that LBA mode is enabled when the drive is detected. If you are not going to boot from it, then it would be best to partition it with an extended + logical partition, not a primary partition.	Terry Porritt (14)
100353	2002-11-21 22:46:00	Terry is right, anything over 504MB must have LBA eanbled in the BIOS. Also check drive speeds for each drive as both will run at the speed of the slowest one.	Stumped Badly (348)
100354	2002-11-25 02:25:00	Thanks for the help guys I changed the conflicting settings in the BIOS from "ISA resources" to "IDE Drive" and that seemed to fix the boot up problem. and yes, the disk drive had been partitioned, so I removed it and reformatted using XP's Disk Management utility. Works fine now. Cheers	Jeff Thompson (2588)
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