Problem with SATA and IDE drive combination

[trystero]

I am having problems with my computer recognizing my IDE drive after replacing (by Ghosting) with a WDRaptor SATA drive. I pulled and formated and assigned non-conflicting drive letter to the old drive but now whenever I boot with the old IDE drive attached the computer scans (with waving flashlight) when I attempt to open 'my computer'. I have attached the WD120IDE drive by itself (no jumper) on IDE 1, as a slave with DVD drive on IDE 2 and even reformatted it (again) but still same problem. Any suggestions would be appreciated. The MB is an Intel 865PERL. Without the IDE hard drive attached the computer works fine although when running Norton Disk Doctor I get this message, "Norton Disk Doctor cannot obtain the physical disk characteristics of hard disk 2 and is unable to test the partion information of the drive." I have also tried switching SATA ports and various BIOS settings all to no avail.

[glc]

What version of Windows?

[kilgoretrout]

That board has issues with sata and win98 if your using that.

[trystero]

Sorry, it's XP. I tried another HD, same thing. I booted with ghost floppy to make another image and it saw both drives just fine. It makes me think that there is something jacked-up with my Windows install.

[glc]

Go into administrative tools, computer management, disk management. You can work with the drive in there - remove partitions, create partitions, etc.

You may also need to enable DMA on the drive - you do this in device manager, properties of the IDE controllers. If the drive is running in PIO mode it will be slower than molasses in January.

[trystero]

Disk management will not open with both drives attached. DMA is enabled on all channels. With a single drive (either, but at the moment the SATA drive) everything works fine. It's odd. I'm going to grab a couple of drives from the house and see if it does the same thing on a fresh OS install. If the problem is with my new Raptor I'm going to cry.

[glc]

I'd double check your bios settings - and update the bios. The 865PERL had one clunker bios in particular - yours may be that version. Are all needed motherboard drivers installed? Run the Intel Express Installer CD that came with the motherboard and see what it advises you.

[biday77]

I think your problem may be that Ghost does not copy the
partition correctly. You might try a program called Casper XP--http://www.fssdev.com/products/casperxp/
or a freeware program called Lexum Drive Imager--
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/13/2/13-2-39.shtml.
I can vouch for Casper XP. It will copy an active partition of 3.5GB in 12 minutes from within Windows XP. This partition will be bootable. Read the Help file before using the program. The 30 day trial will not let you resize the copied to partition so be sure and m,ake it the same size as the original C drive. Be sure and make the copied to partition Active in Comp Management prior to running Casper XP. I use Casper as a backup tool as well as for the purpose you have in mind. A very good,stable, and useful application.

[glc]

If it's a Ghost issue, you can also use Western Digital's DLG Tools to clone the drive.

[trystero]

Thanks for the good advice! I had already updated the BIOS and the ghosted drives seem to work in other machine, this is a work box so I'll try and squeeze some more r&d time in today. If it is the damn board then that will be my cue for a AMD64 upgrade.