Stevarian
06-12-2006, 12:49 AM
My current setup is as follows: I have an Abit IC7 motherboard, and I have 4 hard drives, all Western Digital. My current boot drive is a 120 gb set as Master on IDE 1, with an 80 gb as slave on the same channel.
I have a DVD burner and a DVD player on the second IDE channel.
I then have a Western Digital 200 gb drive, that is using a Promise Ultra TX2 card.
Finally, I have a 36 gb Raptor SATA drive. I bought this drive quite a while ago, with the intention of it being the boot drive, and using other drives to load everything to.
Anyway, I have lived with my system like this for a while, and finally I thought I would make some changes, and actually make the Raptor the boot drive, consolidate all the crap on my sytem, and pull out the 80 gig drive.
So I made the Raptor the boot drive, installed XP Pro to it, and tried it out. It seems to be fine, except that now I have "LOST" the 200 gig drive. Windows XP sees there is a drive there, and when I try going into hardware properties, under VOLUMES, and click the "populate" button, it can't read it.
Windows XP says the driver for the Promise card is installed and is operating fine. I remember that when I installed this (200 gb drive), I had to do something to get Windows to see it, but I can't remember exactly what I did. I think it just may have been to install the driver disk that came with the drive (it was the retail drive, and came with the card in the box).
The jumper on the 200 gb drive is NOT set, per the instructions. The jumpers are correctly set on the other drives.
This is very frustrating, and any help would be appreciated.
(Earlier today I posted that I bought a 250 GB SATA drive, which I did but have not tried installing that yet, because I wanted to get this situation straightened out. If you can think of a way to use it too, I would appreciate that as well!)
Steve
I have a DVD burner and a DVD player on the second IDE channel.
I then have a Western Digital 200 gb drive, that is using a Promise Ultra TX2 card.
Finally, I have a 36 gb Raptor SATA drive. I bought this drive quite a while ago, with the intention of it being the boot drive, and using other drives to load everything to.
Anyway, I have lived with my system like this for a while, and finally I thought I would make some changes, and actually make the Raptor the boot drive, consolidate all the crap on my sytem, and pull out the 80 gig drive.
So I made the Raptor the boot drive, installed XP Pro to it, and tried it out. It seems to be fine, except that now I have "LOST" the 200 gig drive. Windows XP sees there is a drive there, and when I try going into hardware properties, under VOLUMES, and click the "populate" button, it can't read it.
Windows XP says the driver for the Promise card is installed and is operating fine. I remember that when I installed this (200 gb drive), I had to do something to get Windows to see it, but I can't remember exactly what I did. I think it just may have been to install the driver disk that came with the drive (it was the retail drive, and came with the card in the box).
The jumper on the 200 gb drive is NOT set, per the instructions. The jumpers are correctly set on the other drives.
This is very frustrating, and any help would be appreciated.
(Earlier today I posted that I bought a 250 GB SATA drive, which I did but have not tried installing that yet, because I wanted to get this situation straightened out. If you can think of a way to use it too, I would appreciate that as well!)
Steve