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IDE hard drive won't boot

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Kuwi

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I have this really weird problem, a sata hard drive will boot, and IDE cd drive will boot. But my IDE hard drive does nothing. the motherboard recognizes it and I can select it as a boot device but when I do select it nothing happens.
 
Could it be a Slave/Master issue with IDE CD drive. Do not remember details, but for IDE cable attachment order mattered. Check "jumpers" on IDE HDD?
 
It's been a while since I've dealt with IDE drives but IIRC there are jumpers that you have to configure for master/slave or CS (cable select). A little more info would help. What make/model is the drive? Is it on the end of the cable or the middle? Is it also connected to the CD drive? Is the cable 80 wire (really thin, fine wires) or 40 wires (kind of thicker, heavier wires)? Both kinds of cables have 40-pin connectors, the 80 wire cable has half the wires connected to ground for shielding.

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my motherboard is an a690g-m2 ver 6.0 if that helps, I have tried looking at everything in the bios.
 
I have tried switching master/slave jumpers, I have tried without the cd drive. I have tried disabling and unplugging the sata drives.
 
Assuming there is an os to boot to on the ide drive?
Edit: unless I misunderstood and literally nothing happens when the ide drive is attached?
 
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teh_chem said:
Assuming there is an os to boot to on the ide drive?
Edit: unless I misunderstood and literally nothing happens when the ide drive is attached?
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It has Windows 7 on it, yeah nothing happens at all, no errors nothing.
 
Try a linux livecd and make sure you can see the HDD/files. Maybe a Windows repair installation.
 
Have you tried a different IDE HDD? Some boards do not play nice with some IDE drives. It was actually pretty common back in the day.
 
What does a self-booting hard disk diagnostic do?

I've seen motherboard BIOSes have more than one parameter to select the boot drive, like one to prioritize either SATA and PATA and another for the boot order.

Do you have the PATA IDE cable's blue connector going to the controller? 80-wire, 2-drive cables always use CS (Cable Select), never Master or Slave. Also Western Digital PATA drives may have a second jumper setting to select between Master Only and Master With Slave.
 
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