Recognising hard drives

[Rafe]

The boot sequence should be:

floppy(which you don't have)
HDD
CD-rom
other boot devices

BTW, what mobo do you have?

 

[Face50]

NF7-s

It's nice. As I say; only 2 IDE inputs though; should I try swapping my CD drive and Hard drive around? Mayeb they are on a sequencew or something???

 

[Rafe]

Im sorry, but how do you mean see if they are positioned correctly? Under what setyting is that? what should I look out for??

I mean the boot sequence.

Also, there are only 2 IDE plugs in my MOBO (my HD and my CD drive) should I try swapping them around?

Possibly, lemme look at your mobo to find out but, you should have the HD on IDE1 and CD-rom on IDE2

I hate you

lol

 

[Rafe]

NF7-s

It's nice. As I say; only 2 IDE inputs though; should I try swapping my CD drive and Hard drive around? Mayeb they are on a sequencew or something???

Hey I have one of those boards on one of my comps. We should have you back and running in no time.


all mobo's come with just 2 IDE's(technically 3, the IDE-floppy)

 

[locki433]

Some come with more IDE's. Mine has IDE 1,2, and a RAID IDE, plus the floppy

 

[Rafe]

1) I set all of my IDE devices to 'Cable Select'
2) I plug the HD into IDE slot 1
3) I plug the CD into IDE slot 2
4) I plug the floppy(which you donÂ’t have and I donÂ’t think you NEED one but, they are only $14 so why not?) into IDE-floppy
5) I set the boot sequence to:
a) CD
b) HD
c) floppy
d) other boot devices
6) I install windows with the IDEÂ’s configured how they are above
7) once windows is completely installed, I reverse the boot sequence to:
a) floppy
b) HD
c) CD
d) other boot devices


Now, do you have any more IDE Drives other than the CD and the HD?

 

[Rafe]

Some come with more IDE's. Mine has IDE 1,2, and a RAID IDE, plus the floppy

Yeah well, I didn't take that into account because he mentioned nothing about RAID IDE's. He just mentioned regular IDE's.

but you are right.

 

[Face50]

When you say for example;
5)d) Other boot devices
What the hell do you mean? Like; Set it to 'Enable'?
Apart from that, I'v done it all already, to no avail!


Couple of things when browsing BIOS settings;
'IDE Bus master'; should be enabled?
My Hard drive is definately set to be IDE Primary Master

 

[Rafe]

Yes, "Other boot devices" is an option in bios.

 

[Face50]

I just checked and didnt find any options about setting IDE devices to 'Cable Select'!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH WELL.

DO I need to play around with the partitions?