hard drive issues

[david williams]

i have both a sata and an eide hard drive on the same computer nowmy eide
drive won't work any ideas

 

[Jerry]

In this case you need to ask tech support at the motherboard manufacturer's
web site. Hard Drive functionality is long before Windows starts so any
problem here is not a Windows problem.

 

[justme]

i have both a sata and an eide hard drive on the same computer nowmy eide
drive won't work any ideas

Is the ide drive seen by the bios?

 

[Ron Martell]

i have both a sata and an eide hard drive on the same computer nowmy eide
drive won't work any ideas

Check the motherboard documentation. Some BIOS versions have specific
settings that need to be used when both SATA and IDE drives are
present.

Temporarily disconnect the SATA drive, leaving the IDE drive by
itself. If the IDE drive is not bootable then boot your computer with
a bootable diskette or bootable CD and see if you can access the
contents of the IDE drive. That will tell you if the problem is with
the drive itself or with the dual SATA + IDE configuration settings.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
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