ok guys heres the beef.
I currently have 3 HDD's. one old Maxtor 80Gb drive (around 3 years old now).
One Samsung spinpoint 200Gb (two month old)
Another Spinpoint 200Gb (brand spanking new)
so i go to install the new Spinpoint and every thing goes well with the phisical instalation, IDE and power connectors go in fine. but when the computer boots up the maxtor drive (the one with Windows XPMCE on it) isnt found. thinking this may be a slave master error, i remove the new spinpoint in order to move the jumper around. to check i boot up the computer - the new rive and it runs fine. chaning the jumper from cable select to slave i re insert the drive, now the computer doesnt reacognise any of the drives in the computer. i go through them one by one and the computer can reacongnise each individualy. but not together.
the errors are slightly different for each.
the two spin points give a "Un reacognised Partision table"
and the maxtor isnt even reacognised and give a "please insert proper boot media and press any key"
so i figure this could well be a formating problem. i re format one of the spinpoints (using on of my two CD drives). I then go to instal windows on it but half way through the process the drive stops working. so i connect up the other one ditto that. then i reserect an old computer (a white dell noless) to test the drives, none work on that eather. then i remove the white dells CD drive and put than in the new one. same thing happens again.
so thats the saga, any suggestions? any thing even remote would be welcome.
here are my hard ware specs.
Asus p4p800 se
NEC CDRW/DVD+RW
Samsung CD
Gforce 5200GT
2x Samsung spinpoint 200Gb
Maxtor 80Gb
Antec P180 case
thanks for lisening to the saga, and thanks in advance for any help.
I currently have 3 HDD's. one old Maxtor 80Gb drive (around 3 years old now).
One Samsung spinpoint 200Gb (two month old)
Another Spinpoint 200Gb (brand spanking new)
so i go to install the new Spinpoint and every thing goes well with the phisical instalation, IDE and power connectors go in fine. but when the computer boots up the maxtor drive (the one with Windows XPMCE on it) isnt found. thinking this may be a slave master error, i remove the new spinpoint in order to move the jumper around. to check i boot up the computer - the new rive and it runs fine. chaning the jumper from cable select to slave i re insert the drive, now the computer doesnt reacognise any of the drives in the computer. i go through them one by one and the computer can reacongnise each individualy. but not together.
the errors are slightly different for each.
the two spin points give a "Un reacognised Partision table"
and the maxtor isnt even reacognised and give a "please insert proper boot media and press any key"
so i figure this could well be a formating problem. i re format one of the spinpoints (using on of my two CD drives). I then go to instal windows on it but half way through the process the drive stops working. so i connect up the other one ditto that. then i reserect an old computer (a white dell noless) to test the drives, none work on that eather. then i remove the white dells CD drive and put than in the new one. same thing happens again.
so thats the saga, any suggestions? any thing even remote would be welcome.
here are my hard ware specs.
Asus p4p800 se
NEC CDRW/DVD+RW
Samsung CD
Gforce 5200GT
2x Samsung spinpoint 200Gb
Maxtor 80Gb
Antec P180 case
thanks for lisening to the saga, and thanks in advance for any help.