Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:12 pm Post subject: HELP HELP HELP
I have a major stump-er on my hands.
I have an 80 gig sata hd. My thoughts were to get another drive and set it as my OS and use the existing to store everything. My uncle gave me a drive that has an IDE. So we hook up the IDE as master and unplug my existing drive. .. My computer only recognized the drive the first couple times in bios and will not let me boot to it. Another problem is my bios will not recognize my cd-rom as first boot priority. So I'm like OK, I'll just transfer my important files to the new drive and reformat my existing. Well I can't fuggin boot from CD-rom so I can't reformat, it stored the setup info on my hard drive so when I go to reformat, it takes me only to setup and will do install windows!!! I checked and changed all my cables, didn't help. I used an extra CD-rom to no avail either. I've gone through my entire bios and cannot find a solution. I almost feel like its the MB because of the 2 problems (wont recognize IDE HD or CD-rom). I was able to get it to boot to the last known good OS and am freaked out if I lose this drive, my computer will be screwed. I also do not have a floppy, because I told Reaper I didn't need it (Im an idiot). I really need to fix this thing, I have only 14 gig free and I have to delete stuff just to defragment!
That reminds me of a situation I found recently with my own PC - something I had never experienced before. We were able to reduce the likely culprit to my IDE controller. What would happen is I had a very difficult time burning a CD or DVD. It would work on a various piece of software (I tried Roxio's expensive package, xcdroast (old school linux thingy), Nero, and Infrarecorder (Newer linux thingy also for windows). I also tried several IDE drives - oldish ones my dad had lying around, but functional. In the end we suspected my IDE controller and ditched the IDE drives. Got a SATA drive (Now having two satas) and Walla - problem gone for everything. Note that even with one SATA and one IDE, the cds weren't burning on the SATA! The IDE controller was messing up other stuff!
Anyways, my simple point is that using IDE in today's world is like still owning and using a VHS player. Sure, it works if you don't want to / have the money to upgrade. But since you can get a nice > 500 GB SATA HD these days for cheap, there's no reason to ever even mention IDE again!
P.S. I still have an old Maxtor 120GB external drive that was like 200 bucks back in the day. I just don't have enough raw files to keep it too full. But I've been dying to try E-Sata - I heard it's great! Any opinions on it/anything else I've said?
It wouldn't recognize my boot priorities. . I set bios to default and brought it home. . Remarkably, it showed my cd-rom in my bios after that. So I was able to reformat, never knew it would my ass this bad! Thanks for insights.
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