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Percy

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I recently built a computer and i have a little problem other than that everything is great.... well to start off i have a p5q pro motherboard... long story short in my previous computer i had 2 120 gig hard drives ide which were my backups... and a 74 gig raptor... well... using my 74 gig raptor as primary on my new one, i additionally bought 2 640 gig raptors for backup to replace the 120's.... well i wanted to put the 120's in this new pc and copy the data off of them to my new ones.... well i have a problem now.... when connecting ide drives to my new computer.... and i turn it on.... a screen will pop up and say we need to check the 2 ide drives for consistency... so i skip that screen to come to windows logon screen... i enter my password and all hell breaks loose.... bottom bar with the vista logo and my taskbar is showing but the screen turns black after showing my background and keeps poping up a message stating that there has been an error would you like to wait for it to respond or quit... i quit and it shows my background again and there we go again black screen... any ideas on why this is occuring? pretty strange other than that when no ide is connected everything is running to par! :( :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
What's the boot order of the hard drives? Which one was supposed to be first?

Did you set your BIOS up to be able to read/access the SATA and the IDE hard drives?

Which specific brand(s) and model(s) are the two 120GB IDE drives? Do the IDE drives work fine on any other system?

Why did you get two WD6400AAKS drives (they aren't Raptors, though they're faster than the first-third generation Raptors) to backup the 74GB Raptor and the two 120GB IDE drives? (One of the WD6400AAKS drives could easily back them all up with room to spare.)
 
i know but those drives are reading up as raw and for some odd reason when it worked one time with no problem it showed up as raw in disk management. one is a maxtor 120 gig and ones a western digital caviar 120. they both dont have os's on them. i use them for backup... i just formatted one of my hard drives in my other computer so i can try to recover stuff off of them. we will see how it works out.
 
im thinking its a setting in BIOS thats not allowing me to see drives and causing problems anyone know anything in this matter? its a P5Q Pro...
 
Take a look at your user manual for the P5Q Pro. In it there is a section that focuses on the BIOS.

What you need to look for -- and the following is a generalization (as I don't have that board) -- is a setting (or a series of settings) that allow the IDE hard drives to be recognized. (I checked out the online version of the manual, and pages 3-12 and 3-13, I believe, have the information that you need.)
 
but the thing is they read just messes my computer up because of the black screens i get after logging into vista. and i dont see desktop i just see the start bar and task bar its weird
 
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