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Sep 10, 2003, 12:53 PM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
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Cant use IDE
Folks. Just got a new HDD today to use for backing up my c: drive. its an old 10Gig I got from my dad and I can't seem to use it.
I have 2x120Gb SATA drives in RAID0 which are partitioned in two to give me a c: and a d: drive. Everytime I attached the 10gigger the machine tries to boot from that drive and ignores the RAID array. I have formatted it, FDISKd it, turned the boot options for all IDE channels off and it still tries to boot from that drive. Can anyone haylp? Please? |
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Sep 10, 2003, 01:05 PM
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A Legend in Underwear
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Because of the nature of IDE you're - in technical terms - buggered.
I'd try installing a boot manager |
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Sep 10, 2003, 01:16 PM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
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Forgive my ignorance but, can you reccomend any decent ones that might be shareware or something?
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Sep 10, 2003, 07:37 PM
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DriverHeaven Junior Member
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Location: Philly, PA
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What type of motherboard do you have?? There might be a setting in your BIOS that was over looked...?? Are you sure that you checked all the jumper settings on the drive??
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Sep 11, 2003, 02:00 AM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
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Mobo's a Gigabyte GA-8INXP. Checked absolutly everything in the BIOS.
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Sep 11, 2003, 02:58 AM
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gargouille
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Alternatively, you could install Win98 on the 10GB (on like a 500MB partition) and see where you get from here (you may need drivers for the RAID, and will lose the couple hundred megs of the Win98 partition). I think GRUB is a good free bootmanager, but I think you need to install linux to use it.)
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Sep 11, 2003, 03:31 AM
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Unbiased.
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Partition the 10GB so that its just a blank FAT32 partition. Install GRUB or lilo onto the MBR as a bootmanager, and then have it recognize the RAID array as the default boot partition. If the RAID array is software, though, it would be exceedingly difficult to boot off of it, as far as I know...
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Sep 11, 2003, 11:22 AM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
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Just remembered that the board has another RAID setup via the IDE Promise controler. I setup the drive in that and set the controler to BASE. Result - one little 10gig drive which boots after the SATA drives!! hurah.
Thanks for your input guys. |
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