I do video editing, and have a different project on each of 4 ide drives. I have a prolific enclosure, which just died, but I used to swap the hard drives out of it (bad practice. anyone who's interested should buy a WiebeTech DriveDock) when I needed to work on a different project. Since I just set up my new SATA system,
AMD Athlon 950 MHz
512MB DDR RAM
Gigabyte 7VT600P-RZ
120GB WD SATA (E
80GB Seagate IDE (C
ATI DDR 64MB VIVO NTSC (=garbage)
Philips DVD+RW, stolen from a Dell (=garbage)
And it booted just fine to winXP, I plugged in 3 of the external WD IDE drives and tried to boot up. I updated the bios to F5, which fixes some boot issues, and now I have more options (like setting the SATA to Raid or IDE config. Since I only have one, I choose IDE, and I select that hard drive as primary hard drive for booting). But still, when I boot it won't come up.
If I leave it in the original config (SATA + Seagate) it boots fine. As soon as I add a hard drive or two, the results are unpredictable. Sometimes it'll boot fine with the added IDE, other times it gives the error it gave when all 3 are pugged in, which is something to the effect of 'file missing <windows root>\windows\somefile.extension'
I ran system restore from winxp setup cd (after hitting F6 to load my 'scsi' driver from floppy). Didn't know what I was doing, but searched for bootable OSes. It came up with one found on the system (E:\windows), so I added it to the boot menu and called it "1", with no boot options. Now when I boot, I get a menu that gives me the option of "1" (the one I added) or "Windows XP Professional". If I choose winxp, I get the error. If I choose "1" it boots fine.
My questions are:
1) Where is this boot menu loading from? c: or e:?
2) if i truly am booting from SATA, why did windows install 'autoexec.bat' and 'config.sys', etc. files on the C: drive? Can I get rid of those files?
3) Does the info about booting that is stored on the E: drive point to "E:" ? (what I'm getting at, is that when another IDE drive is plugged in and gets assigned E:, does the booting info on SATA now point to that drive?
thanks!
AMD Athlon 950 MHz
512MB DDR RAM
Gigabyte 7VT600P-RZ
120GB WD SATA (E
80GB Seagate IDE (C
ATI DDR 64MB VIVO NTSC (=garbage)
Philips DVD+RW, stolen from a Dell (=garbage)
And it booted just fine to winXP, I plugged in 3 of the external WD IDE drives and tried to boot up. I updated the bios to F5, which fixes some boot issues, and now I have more options (like setting the SATA to Raid or IDE config. Since I only have one, I choose IDE, and I select that hard drive as primary hard drive for booting). But still, when I boot it won't come up.
If I leave it in the original config (SATA + Seagate) it boots fine. As soon as I add a hard drive or two, the results are unpredictable. Sometimes it'll boot fine with the added IDE, other times it gives the error it gave when all 3 are pugged in, which is something to the effect of 'file missing <windows root>\windows\somefile.extension'
I ran system restore from winxp setup cd (after hitting F6 to load my 'scsi' driver from floppy). Didn't know what I was doing, but searched for bootable OSes. It came up with one found on the system (E:\windows), so I added it to the boot menu and called it "1", with no boot options. Now when I boot, I get a menu that gives me the option of "1" (the one I added) or "Windows XP Professional". If I choose winxp, I get the error. If I choose "1" it boots fine.
My questions are:
1) Where is this boot menu loading from? c: or e:?
2) if i truly am booting from SATA, why did windows install 'autoexec.bat' and 'config.sys', etc. files on the C: drive? Can I get rid of those files?
3) Does the info about booting that is stored on the E: drive point to "E:" ? (what I'm getting at, is that when another IDE drive is plugged in and gets assigned E:, does the booting info on SATA now point to that drive?
thanks!
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