Installing with two hard drives

[Me2Ewe]

Hey folks
I have an Asus P2B motherboard and I am trying to install XP Pro onto one
15GB HD and there is another 40GB HD for 2003 server and backups and stuff.
I cannot get it installed. As soon as I hook up two hard drives it wont
recognize the slave. I have installed it on both separately, but as soon as
I hook up the other HD I can't boot into XP it will not get past the
checking slave.
Any ideas. The COMES settings are both on auto LBA
Thanks for any help
Bruce

 

[Plato]

I have an Asus P2B motherboard and I am trying to install XP Pro onto one
15GB HD and there is another 40GB HD for 2003 server and backups and stuff.
I cannot get it installed. As soon as I hook up two hard drives it wont
recognize the slave. I have installed it on both separately, but as soon as
I hook up the other HD I can't boot into XP it will not get past the
checking slave.

I have several Asus P2Bs so I can say there is no problem with them
seeing/using 15gig/40gig HDDs.

Care to say how you have the hard disk jumpers set?

Or, perhaps the drives cant get along on the same IDE channel. This
often happens when the drives are too far apart in age, even if the same
brand, odd, but yeah, sometimes it's an issue.

 

[OracleFire]

Check the drive jumpers, one should be set for master and the other for
slave. Also check the BIOS to make sure that it is detecting both drives.

 

[hiredgun56]

Concur....BIOS support is crucial...(laffing hysterically)..

Check the IDE cable too....sometimes, the master drive has to go on the
last coupling..and the slave, in between the motherboard and the master
drive...

It might go: on the IDE...MB to slave to master...in that order.

I had an Intel MB that did the same thing...and thats the way I had to
install the drives...

I dont think the hard drive capacity has that much to do with it...15
to 40....isnt that great a range...now if it was 15 to 120...might be
an issue...

Set the master to "master" on the jumpers..and slave to "slave" on the
varying drives...XP does the rest...

Hope it helps....

 

[Me2Ewe]

I have tried to use master & slave and then Cable Select. One drive is
Maxtor & the 40 GB is a Seagate Barracuda. The 40 GB is newer than the 15GB
about 5 years difference
Bruce

 

[Me2Ewe]

I tried all that even changed IDE cables and nothing
B

 

[Me2Ewe]

The BIOS is not detecting the slave no matter how I set them[40 as master or
15 as master] it will not detect the slave.

 

[Mike Fields]

Just for a test, you might try configuring the drives for
Cable Select (CS) and see if they will play together
that way.

mikey

The BIOS is not detecting the slave no matter how I set them[40 as master or
15 as master] it will not detect the slave.

Check the drive jumpers, one should be set for master and the other for
slave. Also check the BIOS to make sure that it is detecting both drives.

 

[hiredgun56]

Upgrade the BIOS?

 

[Ron Sommer]

The Bios is set to Autodetect on IDE 0 slave?
Did you try connecting each drive to a different IDE channel?

 

[Plato]

Check the IDE cable too....sometimes, the master drive has to go on the
last coupling..and the slave, in between the motherboard and the master
drive...

True for the 80 conductor cable. Not an issue tho for the standard 40
pin/conductor cable.

 

[LVTravel]

If you have not tried this, install just the 40 GB hard drive by itself as
Primary Master with no drive as slave (make sure the jumper is set as either
Master or Single since I don't know how the Seagate drive is jumpered).
Power up the computer and look at the bios display. Does the computer
recognize the drive now? If not the drive is probably trashed and should be
discarded.

 

[Me2Ewe]

That's the winner You got the prize LV
It is a screwed disc only 3 months old too and no receipt
oh well thanks a lot for everybody's help
Bruce

 

[LVTravel]

All may not be lost. Go to Seagate's web site at
http://www.seagate.com/support/service/ and check their warranty and
possibility of getting a replacement. If the unit shows that it was built
within the warranty period you may not have to have a receipt. I was
fortunate a few years ago to have a Maxtor drive replaced without a receipt
only by sending in the drive, they saw the build date on the drive and they
replaced it without charge (except for shipping.)

Good luck.