In my computer I have both IDE and S-ATA connections for my hard drives. I now try to set it up with 3 hard drives, 1 S-ATA 200GB, 1 IDE 200GB and my old IDE 80GB. This 80GB is the drive that gives me headacke just now, I can't find it, not registred in "My computer" or in the "BIOS"...:swear: I use an Asus P4P800SE mainboard, can there bee some thing in the BIOS that needs to be changed? Or is it only that the drive has totally collapsed? Can I accsess the drive in any way, I have some GB's with pictures and music there witch I did not take a security copy of:swear:
If its not showing up in BIOS its probably the jumper. Even knackered drives usually show in BIOS. Check your jumpers and if they seem to be correct try using cable select instead of master/slave or vice versa.
yeah, is it detected by BIOS ? is BIOS set to auto detect ? how have you set drives master, slave or C/SEL
Thanks. The hard drive is set to master on the jumper setting. It might maybe an idea to try setting it to slave, and the other derive to master? If I use cable select, i guess both drives must be CS?
Only use master when the drive is at the "top" of the cable, and slave when the drive in the middle of the cable. As to both drives needing to be set to CS.... I dont know! Ive never tried setting one to CS and the other slave, say. I would be surprised if it did work. I suppose I should say its good practise you use one convention or the other and not both at the same time. I suppose cable select is the best to set them to all the time and just use master/slave if you are having problems.
