hpt366 drive + access from IDE??

[cjbilly]

Hello there,

Basically, to summarize my situation : I had a BP6 motherboard with a hard drive installed on the HPT366 controller. Installed XP over the top of Win2K - it worked and XP was fine until the missus got her hands on it and somehow corrupted the windows directory! Now when I tried to install XP back over the original dir - XP wouldn't accept the HPT drivers (even the beta XP ones).

So - after 4/5 weeks trying to get the thing to work - I resigned myself to getting a new system and putting the old hard drive in it (after installed XP on a new 160GB HD). However, XP doesn't recognise the old drive which was used on the BP6 HPT366 controller.

So after all that : is it possible to put a HPT366 Hard drive on a normal IDE controller and retrieve the information on it?

Cheers - Cjb

 

[Snugglebear]

Avoid the HPT366 at all costs. It is nothing but headaches, and this is well known in the bp6 circles. IBM drives + HPT366 are especially volitile as there are known bugs in the HPT366 that will screw them up wonderfully. Those HPTs are also known to corrupt data at random intervals and cause BSODs/kernel panics. All that being said, the HPT366 is just another IDE controller in the end, so switching a drive between that and another ATA controller won't harm anything. Just be sure the drive is wired & jumpered correctly, and that the ATA controller is enabled in the bios.