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ereilly26

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hi all i have a compaq 2019 desktop with a 160g hard drive and a 1g memory and the speed if it is 35+ i added a second hard drive of 40g and now my 160g hard drive wont start up allso my norton virus say that it is out of date can amyone help me it is doing my head in as i know the norton virus is in date

thank you
 
Posts are much easier to read with punctuation... And I don't understand your problem. If it won't boot, how do you know if norton's out of date? Are you disconnecting the drive and getting this? Did it start just after you installed that new hard drive?
 
When adding the second hard drive which ribbon cable(primary or secondary) was used? Did you set the jumper to slave on the rear of the drive? And another third question here is which connector on the cable did you use for the second 40gb drive?
 
The_Other_One said:
Posts are much easier to read with punctuation... And I don't understand your problem. If it won't boot, how do you know if norton's out of date? Are you disconnecting the drive and getting this? Did it start just after you installed that new hard drive?
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sorry about the wording the 40g hard drive starts up but the 160g wont start up yes it did start up just after i installed the hard drive
 
PC eye said:
When adding the second hard drive which ribbon cable(primary or secondary) was used? Did you set the jumper to slave on the rear of the drive? And another third question here is which connector on the cable did you use for the second 40gb drive?
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my 160g hard drive is a sata drive and the 40g hard drice is the one with cable and i did set the jumpers
 
sounds like the 160g sata has your os on it, and the 40g is an ide that you added? maybe your bios settings got changed and it thinks you want to boot from the ide. i'd check your bios settings.
 
If your OS drive is a sata most generally add a primary slave to the OS drive for storage that way. What is happening there is that the ide controller will override the sata controllers by default. If the bios when going to choose the first boot device you press the enter key to bring up a menu of choices. You would choose sata if the option is seen there. In the integrated peripherrals you would choose sata at the ide/sata selector to see sata made the default boot device otherwise install Windows onto the 40gb to make that the host.
 
PC eye said:
If your OS drive is a sata most generally add a primary slave to the OS drive for storage that way. What is happening there is that the ide controller will override the sata controllers by default. If the bios when going to choose the first boot device you press the enter key to bring up a menu of choices. You would choose sata if the option is seen there. In the integrated peripherrals you would choose sata at the ide/sata selector to see sata made the default boot device otherwise install Windows onto the 40gb to make that the host.
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So, basically what he is saying, is that to have both your SATA and your IDE hard drive, you need to reinstall windows, and install SATA drivers so your IDE hard drive doesn't default to master.
 
i've added an ide hard drive to my system, which had only sata drives at the time, and i didn't have to reinstall windows. it was just a bios setting i had to change.
 
Jet said:
So, basically what he is saying, is that to have both your SATA and your IDE hard drive, you need to reinstall windows, and install SATA drivers so your IDE hard drive doesn't default to master.
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There should an option in the bios for sata as default in either the hardware configuration section if not the boot device order. If the board has two not one ide controllers it will default there as a rule unless configured for using sata. With a case where the 40gb was already the host you would simply install the needed drivers for sata in order to Windows properly detect and have ready access in order to format it as well as read off of it.

HP doesn't provide an online manual since they have installed as part of the software package on the drive itself. On a board with only one ide controller you know that there is a sata board where the default is already for bios detection of a sata host. To simply add a drive for storage to the 160gb sata a second one of those would have been the better move due to the faster access seen. Plus you can go upto some good sized drives now.

A 40gb ide wouldn't present a problem for running Linux on it with the sata host there. You would simply boot from a Grub floppy or install a universal boot loader to avoid bios setting changes just to load one OS or the other. There referring to the manual will outline the bios settings for seeing the sata host running as host by showing where the settings have to be changed.
 
I don't really understand the problem it's worded weirdly, but I do believe pdc has it pinned with the boot order being messed up.
 
When a 40gb ide drive was added to the system where an existing Windows installation was on the 160gb sata drive it essentially upset the apple cart with the bios looking for an OS on the 40gb. The ide controller overtook the sata by default. This is a more common problem then people expect. On a strictly sata model the bios would have to be configured for an ide to be the host or boot drive. The 160gb is currently not being seen due to this. A review of the manual that HP didn't provide in bootlet form is what has to be done now for making the needed changes to assign or better reassign the 160gb drive as the primary again.
 
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