Howdy everyone, sorry if this post is in the wrong spot, but it's sort of a new build issue. I'm running WinXP pro with an 80gig Western Digital HD. Tried to plug in an internal 250gig Hitachi HD last night, set the pins per directions, plugged in drives as directed. Rebooted the computer with the hitachi cd and the boot up process went through a sequence in which it attempted to connect with both drives and then I could set my partitions, etc. Problem is the computer never found the drives. I tried to reboot but, after the first main page of boot up I get a message saying I need to insert my system cd. Well I'm pretty sure this is going to reinstall my OS and erase pretty much everything I have on my master drive. Anyone out there know what I can do to prevent this, or at least get my master drive back to where it was? I am unable to boot the computer in safe mode or any mode for that matter. Thanks ahead of time. Oh yeah, I cannont find my drives in CMOS either.
if you can't find drives then most likely the jumpers are set wrong did you set them master-slave according to place on IDE cable or did you use cable select?
Have you tried with just your old drive on the conriguration it was on? Try that and if it works back up your data if you're worried about what could go wrong.
