 Free Scan: Update Your PC's Outdated Drivers to Optimize Performance 
July 16th, 2008, 04:23 PM
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I'm thinking that maybe your system doesn't support Cable Select. You can try manually jumpering the drives. Western Digital drives that are alone on a cable must have the jumper *removed*. Don't forget that both drives need to be connected to the primary controller (IDE 0).
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July 16th, 2008, 05:15 PM
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The main problem is that the boot disk failure message comes whenever the power is connected to the HD at all (with the HD attached to card). I did the thing with the CD with both drives plugged in without the card. No way I can boot from the CD with the drive plugged into the card. There a way to boot from the CD without waiting for the message saying "Press any key to boot from CD"
I went and tried every jumper position. Nothing changed. And of course Promise's telephone tech support is busy.
By the way, the new HD is Seagate.
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July 16th, 2008, 05:35 PM
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If the CD is set as slave on the same cable as the old drive and you remove the HD, the CD can't work because the slave needs a master. The Cd should be the secondary master.
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July 16th, 2008, 05:42 PM
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I got the CD to Boot with the HD attached to the card, and the old HD not connected.
I am doing a repair without recovery as I type this (I'm on a different computer).
This should work, right? | |
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July 16th, 2008, 05:47 PM
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Yes, but the drive won't be fully used. | |
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July 16th, 2008, 05:57 PM
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What do you mean it won't be fully used?
After the repairing windows restarted, and when it did the "Press and key to boot from CD" thing appeared. If I don't press anything it then says "Disk read error occcured. Press CTRL ALT DEL to restart"
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July 16th, 2008, 06:31 PM
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Man, you gotta press a key!
You must then press F6 to load the card drivers.
You aleady set up Windows on this new drive, yes? It didn't use the whole drive, right? That's why we're doing this thing. Well, your partition is going to be the same size as before - 127MB or so. Switching to this card is not going to magically expand the partition to the full drive size. You have to use the slipstreamed Windows CD to run setup again if you want to create a new partition that uses the whole drive. | |
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July 16th, 2008, 08:38 PM
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It works! I can finally put all this hard drive mess behind me!
Whooo!
Thanks for all the help. | |
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July 16th, 2008, 08:50 PM
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