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| Thread ID: 124684 | 2012-05-13 03:30:00 | HDD's Not recognised | ChazTheGeek (16619) | Press F1 |
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| 1275006 | 2012-05-13 03:30:00 | Hi folks, Just picked up a another free PC that was going and just stopped. It was a mate's PC and he got rid of it as it was getting a bit out of date. Now here's the prob, I just cleaned out and unistalled programs from the PC's 2 IDE HDD's. I restarted it and it was fine for the next half dozen reboots (for graphics card drivers etc), then chaos. I put in a networking card in (PCI card) then when I rebooted it would not regognise the drives in the BIOS or the Norton Ghost recovery disk. So I took the card out and rebooted...nothing. Then I changed IDE cables and it made no difference. I made sure in the BIOS that boot device priorities were set right, but alas no HDD's were seen by the BIOS. I also tested both HDD's on another system and the drives were recognised. The jumpers were also set right. So I booted up again and then it came up with "disk read error " "Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to restart" The OS on the main IDE drive is Windows XP Professional 32BIT SP3 Do you hardened techies know what the trouble is?? :help: Thanks. |
ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1275007 | 2012-05-13 03:42:00 | Jumped the right way ?? | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1275008 | 2012-05-13 04:00:00 | Yep. I had the one with the OS as Master and the other one as Slave. When I tested them on the other system I had them as Slaves. | ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1275009 | 2012-05-13 04:21:00 | Have you got them in the correct order on the IDE cable ?? ... master first then slave at end | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1275010 | 2012-05-13 05:39:00 | So I put the the very end of the cable on slave HDD? | ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1275011 | 2012-05-13 07:21:00 | If its a blue ribbon, make sure the blue end is on the mobo. Also make sure, the red line (thats on one side of it), is connected to pin 1 on the hdd. And yup the last connection goes to the hdd thats slave | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1275012 | 2012-05-13 08:10:00 | Have you got them in the correct order on the IDE cable ?? ... master first then slave at end It really only matters if the drives are jumpered as Cable Select. |
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| 1275013 | 2012-05-13 09:42:00 | Thanks I got it all working. SATA is so much easier!! | ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
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