Installing IDE hard Drive

P373R

P373R

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i have a new motherboard its a P4 2.66gz and i can be bothered getting the serial number however it might help/

i have put all new parts in my IDE hard drive is a 13GB seagate and i am pretty noobish and it keeps asking me for a bootable drive. even though its plugged in

and the only thing i can think of is that the drive isnt installed because i am used to auto detect but i though a new motherboard would have that???

ANY SUGGESTIONS ANYONE?

please note i have tryed annother drive i know that works, it didnt work either :(
 
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You have to install a OS on it. Or if it already had a OS on it with a new board you need to reinstall or do a repair install.
 
yeah i gathered that. its just when the computer boots up. it wont even recognise that a hard drive is installed. therefore you cannot install an Operating system on a drive that isnt Technically plugged in, even though it is.

i tryed some more work last night

i tryed to plug in both the hard drive and CD drive into the Primary IDE port...
however only the dish drive was recongnised

then i tryed two different disk drives in the second IDE port and 2 different hard drives and only one from each was recognised. however when entering Windows setup... i was told there were yet again no hard disks found.

then i pluged both drives in normal without any slavs or secondary disks and they both worked fine....

i installed Windows Home edition. and everything was fine
however after reebooting the computer yet again canot recognise any IDE device that IS ACTUALLY Plugged in???

:confused:
 
i tried cable select and it didnt work

However i found the problem
it was either of the following

- the IDE cable was created/put together backwards
- the previous cable was broken
- or somehow my motherboards IDE slot was wired backwards XD

anyway lazily plugged the IDE cable in backwards and thought to myself
well i cant be bothered changing it over i guess i could give it a try
nothing else seems to work. so i turn it on and windows boots in a matter of seconds
and i feel a mixture of annoyance and relief as i wasted hours all for a backwards IDE cable
 
I had the same problem installing mac OSX and Ubuntu Hardy on my HD it wouldn't recognize my hd. This is what I had to do to get my OS to read my HD. Go into your bios and onChip settings I had to change the setting from SATA to ACHI settings then I saved and rebooted pc and it read my HD, like I said this only happened to me with Ubuntu and Mac OSX. When I formatted my hd and tried to install Windows XP it would read my HD on ACHI so I had to put the setting back on SATA and it read the HD. Hope this helps. Give it shot.
 
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