how to install hard drive ?

eracer2006 · 17 Jul 2007 at 18:27

got all my new hardware, trying to install windows on my ide hard drive as i broke the cable on the sata one so need a sata cable to get it to work.

i want to have xp on my 160gb wd caviar ide 7200, and my games on the sata barracude 7200.10

but when i boot into bios it doesnt detect any ide devices,

ide channel 0 master [none]
ide channel 1 master [none]
ide channel 2 master [none]
ide channel 3 master [none]
ide channel 4 master [none]
ide channel 4 slave [none]
ide channel 5 master [none]
ide channel 5 slave [none]

Drive A [none] (which is correct!)

however when i put my xp disc into me IDE dvdrw it spins up and seems to be detected, but when i press enter nothing happens.

any ideas ? ive took the driver off which the ide hard drive says to do to get it to run as master on its own, as the sata isnt connected.

cheers

eddie101 · 17 Jul 2007 at 18:36

checked the jumpers on the ide drive?

eracer2006 · 17 Jul 2007 at 18:39

done that, said to take jumper out, so i have.

is it because my ide cable has a tag on the longest adaptor saying "master"

because if i plug that in my seconday adaptor on the ide cable wont reach my cd drive which is at the top of the case ?

eddie101 · 17 Jul 2007 at 18:41

Is it not detecting your optical drive either?

eracer2006 · 17 Jul 2007 at 18:45

doesnt seem to be!

eracer2006 · 17 Jul 2007 at 18:55

i found a longer ide cable, got it installed as master, still doesnt work, set it in the bios to boot as raid / ide so ide ports = ide ports, still doesnt work so let it boot up and i get

DISK BOOT FALURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

so i insert windows disc into dvd drive, press enter, theres a 5 second blank screen and the disk boot failure comes on.

so looks like it wont work with my hdd and dvd drive. no idea why either.

ron3003 · 17 Jul 2007 at 21:23

You set bios to boot from cd?

Cupra · 17 Jul 2007 at 21:26

what motherboard is it??

as above if you press F8 a few times whil the systes is booting then cchoose the cd/dvd drive it should find the xp cd m8

Jaaay · 17 Jul 2007 at 21:35

This happened to me once, but it was found in My Computer, so i had to format the drive, and then recover all the information using a program. Eventually it did work though

eddie101 · 17 Jul 2007 at 21:58

If the board is not detecting any of the drives i would check every possible setting in the bios, put it back to default settings, if that doesnt work, then i think your ide controller is FUBAR

eracer2006 · 18 Jul 2007 at 02:04

ron3003 · 18 Jul 2007 at 12:54

Got another pc you can put the new disk into so as you can initialize and format it through control panel/administrative tools/computer management/disk management?