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hard drive problems

  • 20-09-2000 5:47pm
    #1
    m1ke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 852 ✭✭✭


    At the moment i'm trying to install win2k pro. The installation says it can't detect a hard drive.

    The bios list of primary, secondary IDE drives etc... doesn't list my hard drive but in a second list that pops up after that it detects my hard drive some sort of UDMA list like
    D0 Maxtor 4 29355 1 - kind of menu

    Is this a problem with my hard drive or the bios (it's a new system I bought just a couple of weeks ago piece by piece, the hard drive is a 13.6 gig maxtor which is around 1 year old or so).

    I can't get the computer to recognise any hard drives in the bios. Anyone got any ideas how to fix the problem because i'm well fed up with win98 as an OS.


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  • #2
    Gerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭Gerry


    It sounds like you have a motherboard with an extra ide controller, like the abit kt7 or similar. ie your motherboard has 4 ide ports. The latest bios for your motherboard should fix it, alternatively plug your hard drive into the ide port1, (the onboard, standard controller. ) make sure the bios is set to autodetect the drive. If this works, I want to know how to get isdn on indigo smile.gif


  • #3
    Lump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    Speaking of controllers, there hard *******s to get, I mean PCI/Ide.


    FFS, peats sold me an ISA one( only place in Ireland I could get on) and the ****ing thing was a no brand pile of my balls.


    SO I sent the thing back cause It wont work,

    Im going to cry, the 40 Gb drive has been sitting there for a month now.

    John


  • #4
    Gerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭Gerry


    John, are you sure your system wont support it? Even some pentium 1 machines may be able to support it after a bios upgrade. Failing that, go to the website of the hard drive maker, and download disk manager software. This will let you use the drive on a machine which normally couldnt recognise it.


  • #5
    m1ke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 852 ✭✭✭m1ke


    thanks for the suggestions i'll give em a try. Oh btw Gerry i'm afraid there's no secret to getting on indigo with ISDN, U have to pay for a stanking ISDN account .... but that's what my former boss is for smile.gif


  • #6
    Lump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    BNo, I upgraded the Bios, I worked out that the controller is pants, therefore I went to buy an Additional PCI/IDE device, It was ISA, no driver disk, and no brand. So I sent it back. Im trying to find another branded one.


    John


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  • #7
    m1ke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 852 ✭✭✭m1ke


    Gerry - ya suggestion worked perfectly, am now running a 13 gig and 30 giger in the same machine biggrin.gif with windows 2000 on it finally !


  • #8
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    try installing one hard drive.
    when it comes up as your primary ide master install win2k.
    youve prolly got a jumper problem, either that or your hard drives are a pile of junk wink.gif


  • #9
    Cake Fiend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,335 ✭✭✭Cake Fiend


    Now that the topic's finished, Phil, if you can't get Indigo to work (haven't tried it myself) you still have a choice of eircom net, oceanfree, unison and buy&sell. I get 48 ping to vishnu on unison, haven't tried british servers much yet, but I hear b&s and oceanfree are the men for the job.


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