SATA drive problems

[wilbur_dee]

Hi all - I have a computer that I built & when I built it I installed 2 SATA drives, one for XP & one for storage. Everything was working great until I recently decided to remove the storage SATA drive & replace it with a 300 gig IDE drive that I removed from a machine that I scrapped. The IDE drive still has an XP op. system on it from the scrapped machine. My mobo is an Intel D865PERL.
When I booted it went right to the IDE drive 1st so I went into bios setup to change the boot order to the SATA drive but bios would not let me do that as the SATA drive was 'greyed-out'.
I had planned to reformat the IDE drive from within Windows if I could have booted to it but I cannot & I really don't have a clue why this is happening.
I didn't change any jumper settings on the IDE drive (it was previously set to master when it was in the scrapped computer) and I attached it with a ribbon cable that is brand new.
Anyone got any ideas ?
Thanks in advance.

[hitchface]

Jumper it to slave.

[wilbur_dee]

Jumper it to slave.

Thanks Hitchface, I'll try that tonight after work.

[Cricket]

No, jumpering the IDE HDD to slave won't fix your problem...and if you don't move the IDE HDD to the middle position on the IDE cable it may not even be recognized by the motherboard.

Make sure you have your main SATA HDD on the very first SATA connection (SATA0 or SATA1) and not on one of the RAID SATA connectors. You may want to go into the BIOS with the IDE HDD disconnected from the motherboard and try to set the SATA HDD as the boot drive and then connect the IDE HDD later.

If you have another computer available you could put the IDE HDD in there and wipe it clean before you install it in your computer. I would use DBan (http://dban.sourceforge.net/) or KillDisk (http://www.killdisk.com/) to zero-fill the HDD, that way it'll be truly blank and not be the active system HDD.

:) Cricket

[glc]

Use an 80 wire cable and jumper the IDE drive to cable select.

[hitchface]

I stand corrected.

[wilbur_dee]

No, jumpering the IDE HDD to slave won't fix your problem...and if you don't move the IDE HDD to the middle position on the IDE cable it may not even be recognized by the motherboard.

Make sure you have your main SATA HDD on the very first SATA connection (SATA0 or SATA1) and not on one of the RAID SATA connectors. You may want to go into the BIOS with the IDE HDD disconnected from the motherboard and try to set the SATA HDD as the boot drive and then connect the IDE HDD later.

If you have another computer available you could put the IDE HDD in there and wipe it clean before you install it in your computer. I would use DBan (http://dban.sourceforge.net/) or KillDisk (http://www.killdisk.com/) to zero-fill the HDD, that way it'll be truly blank and not be the active system HDD.

:) Cricket


I really appreciate all the help. Here's what I did.
removed the IDE drive from the computer. tried to boot into the original SATA drive which contains the op. system for this computer (XP) but got error message to insert boot media &
reboot.
Started again & went directly into the BIOS & could NOT find any SATA drive listed at all. It only showed my floppy drive. It's funny that it didn't list either of my DVD drives either. It used to before I decided to put the IDE drive in.
I also changed the SATA drive from SATA 0 to SATA 1 on the mobo & rebooted - again BIOS didn't show any drive other than the floppy. I even tried using a different SATA cable.
I really have no clue - any ideas ?

[wilbur_dee]

I really appreciate all the help. Here's what I did.
removed the IDE drive from the computer. tried to boot into the original SATA drive which contains the op. system for this computer (XP) but got error message to insert boot media &
reboot.
Started again & went directly into the BIOS & could NOT find any SATA drive listed at all. It only showed my floppy drive. It's funny that it didn't list either of my DVD drives either. It used to before I decided to put the IDE drive in.
I also changed the SATA drive from SATA 0 to SATA 1 on the mobo & rebooted - again BIOS didn't show any drive other than the floppy. I even tried using a different SATA cable.
I really have no clue - any ideas ?


I went back into the BIOS and had to ENABLE my original SATA drive via a setting that I missed before (BIOS newbie) & things are back to normal (BIOS DOES see SATA, both DVD drives, etc.).
Guess I need to reread my BIOS manual which I was smart enough to print out when I first got my mobo.
I am going to take your suggestions & put the IDE drive in my spare computer & wipe it & format
it & then put it back & try again.
When I put it in my spare machine I am setting it to Cable Select & plugging it into the secondary IDE connector - is this correct ?

[glc]

That is correct if you have a 80 wire cable and if any other drive on the cable is also jumpered CS.