New HDD Troubles

[ins0mn1ac]

This post is in addition to a thread I made a while ago..

Well I'm looking to get a bigger HDD and I suppose SATA is the way forward, I currently have a couple IDE drives so what I need to know is..

Can I run the one SATA drive while having the other 2 IDE drives also? will it just show as 3 physical drives? assuming I set both current HDD's as slaves?

Cheers.

Anyways I installed the new drive all fine and dandy, got windows on it etc.
(Did this with only the SATA connected)
So I then detached the SATA drive and then replaced the two older HDD's, and formatted the original C drive.
I then replaced the SATA assuming it would automatically take master being the C and having windows, this is where I run into trouble.

If I keep them all connected my PC hangs just before the windows loading bar, but then If I use the SATA along with ONE of the older drives it boots fine.

I'm thinking jumper problem maybe? Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

 

[ins0mn1ac]

Your old PATA drives need to be set to MASTER and SLAVE if they are using the SAME 40/80 pin ribbon cable (master being the middle connector, and slave being the end connector), if they are on their own cable they both need to be set to master.

SATA drives dont "share" the channel with another device so are always master. Are you sure you have formatted your old C: drive? Even if you hadn't it shouldn't cause your PC to hang before the loading bar. I have no idea what would cause that.

Yer its defo formmated, when I say I can only use one IDE with the SATA I mean either IDE will boot with the SATA fine, just not both at the same time.
I'll re-check the jumper config in the morning, thanks!