Q: I bought a 180gb WD drive and can not get to the boot disk. Heres the problem. The drive itself works, when to my motherboards Eide itlkl lock up when I select the BIOS settings. problem with this is that XP only recgonize 137gb of the drive. to get around this, WD has delivered a PCI card that will have the full 180gb. problem is now . I have no settings in my BIOS to boot from my WD drive, because it is implemented through a PCI slot . Help! : (I
am make any sense?
Re:OH i feel like an idiot….so njow it works…thank you!
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Under Boot Devices in your BIOS…..try selecting boot from "SCSI" first.
Re:if you installed OS to the 180 while on the mb's IDE, you may have formatted it as a 137.
Remove regular boot drive (leave just the 180 on the custom controller card)
Set BIOS to boot to SCSI first.
Install OS
once happy, return the other drive to the system.
worky?
(just restating what lilithtech said into more "common" terms..)
Re:Under Boot Devices in your BIOS…..try selecting boot from "SCSI" first.
Re:I want my OS on the 180 because it's a 7200 /w 8mb. A lot faster than the old 5400, is this even a worthwhile cause to switch the OS over?
I have the OS installed just fine on both drives, it's just that, I can boot from the 180 when it's in the regular eide slot off the motherboard, but when the drive is plugged in through teh supplied PCI card, my bios won't let me boot off that drive. There's no, boot from the harddrive running through my PCI card. do you follow?
Re:If you are trying to install the OS on the 180, then you must load
the drivers for the controller.
At the "Setup is inspecting your hardware configuration" screen
press the [F6] until you see the "Mass Storage Controller auto detect screen"
Next a screen will appear showing a list of Mass Storage Devices (IDE Controllers, SCSI cards, Etc.) that have
been recognized by the setup program. Press the "S" key to specify additional Mass Storage Controllers
When you reach the next screen, "Other (Requires disk provided by a hardware manufacture)" will already be
selected on the bottom half of the setup screen. Press the "enter" key to continue.
You will now be prompted to "Please insert the disk labeled manufacture supplied support disk".
Insert the Controller's driver disk and then press the "enter" key when ready.
Setup should display the following: "Setup has recognized the following Mass Storage Controller devices
in your computer". Press the "enter" key to accept.
Do yourself a favor, do not install the OS with the other drive installed if it has an OS on it.
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