Mixing drives.

[Chuck]

I run a dual drive setup, with both drives partitioned to a total of 6
drives.
I had an EIDE 80GB drive (four partitions) as my boot drive, and an EIDE
27GB drive (two partitions), when the smaller drive died on me. I went out
and bought a new drive, and since to price was fairly cheap, I bought an
SATA 160GB. I partitioned it into four drives and installed it as my boot
drive.
My problem arose with the old boot drive (EIDE 80gb). I partitioned it into
two drives and installed it as a slave to the SATA drive. Windows recognized
it, but started giving me some problems:
I couldn't boot to the Windows XP Home CDROM anymore.
I started getting errors on partitions from the (previously working) SATA
drive, and the 80gb drive started appearing as a 4gb drive and then a 7gb
drive.
They are both Maxtor Drives, but windows XP was showing the 80gb drive as
"MaXtOr 6" with only 7gb.
I used Norton anti-virus, I updated it and ran it - No viruses.

Question: How do I configure this 80gb EIDE drive to work well with an SATA
drive inWindows XP?

Here is what I'm using:
MSI 865PE mb
Pentium 4 2.8 w/HT
1GB Dual RAM
1 Maxtor SATA 160GB
1 Maxtor EIDE 80gb
EVGA Nvidia 5600FX 256mb Video card
Networked with wife's computer for a Wireless high speed internet access (No
modem)
DVD re-writer
DVD/CDROM drive
1.44 Floppy drive
Windows XP Home (Full version disk)
Norton Systemworks 2003

 

[Rich Barry]

Chuck, what method did you use to partition the old drive? Try
installing it as Master on the Secondary IDE channel.

 

[Chuck]

I used windows XP Administrative tools to partition it while it was
connected as secondary Slave.

Chuck

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Connect the new SATA to SATA Port 0. Jumper the old EIDE Hdd as master and
connect to the Primary IDE channel as master. Jumper the DVD/Cd-Rom as master
and the DVD writer as slave then connect them to the secondary IDE channel
with the DVD/CD-rom as master the DVD writer as slave.

Since you are not setup a raid array for the Hdds so therefore it is no need
to install the SATA drivers during the installation of XP.
Boot into BIOS, in the advanced CMOS setup, select "Enhanced" for the
ATA/IDE configuration.
The new Hdd should show in the SATA Port 0.
The old IDE hdd should show in primary IDE as master
PATA master should show the DVD/CD-rom and the PATA slave should show the
DVD writer.

Click the Boot tab and change the boot device priority
1st device DVD/Cd-rom
2nd device Floppy drive
3rd device the new SATA Hdd

In the harddisk dirve
Select the new SATA hdd as first drive and the IDE hdd as 2nd drive.
Save and exit BIOS setup and then try to install the XP OS again.

Hope it helps.

Peter