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Thread ID: 73437	2006-10-19 01:35:00	Hard Drive won't be detected	Volitle (10063)	Press F1

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492548	2006-10-20 16:19:00	and i'm sure cdrom drives cannot share ide cables with hard disk drives lol.....totally incorrect.......they're both ide devices and they'll share the cable quite happily indeed........	drcspy (146)
492549	2006-10-21 02:07:00	and i'm sure cdrom drives cannot share ide cables with hard disk drives lol.....totally incorrect.......they're both ide devices and they'll share the cable quite happily indeed........ actually both! they can share ok BUT it often causes problems including causing the pc to run very slow especially any time the cd drive is used. some system do not like have cd and HD on the same IDE. for best performance and compatibility keep them on separate IDE.	tweak'e (69)
492550	2006-10-21 02:36:00	Ok I'm gonna have a go ;-) First up How old is the computer as it may not be able to detect the larger new drives without the use of an overlay program. 2nd make sure you go into BIOS first and detect it there. Once it is detected there you cannot boot on that drive until you actually Prepare it using either F-Disk or the Windows 2000/XP install cd. The reason you are getting and I quote "Disk Boot Failure, insert system disk an press enter" is because the disk has not been formatted and setup with a system boot sector (eg windows/dos) What you need to do is Boot using the Windows install CD and install the OS to it. Your description of the problem has left a few things out. Are you installing the drive and a 2nd harddrive with the OS on another one. Or are you installing a new hardive on it's own and want to put the OS on it. If it is a 2nd Hard drive and you already have a hardrive with an OS insatlled my guess is that it is conflicting with your main drive, make sure the slave master jumpers are set correctly and check the boot sequence in the BIOS. Could you be a little more specific as to what you are trying to do. Some of the above posters are correct, Windows will detect the drive provided it is a 2nd hardrive and you are running windows from another, things should function fine.	Odin (227)
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