Adding IDE hardrive hangs during IDE detection

[zepplinswt]

All is working fine with my new build, but now I am trying to add a 30G maxtor IDE drive and the computer locks on ide detection. I am running WinXP and it boots fine off the 200G SATA, but when I add the IDE drive it won't boot. The IDE drive does have win2k installed on it...don't really care about the data on the ide drive, just want to be able to add it and then format. Any ideas, suggesting? My configuration is below. Thanks..

ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe
200G Seagate w/ XP PRO SP2
XP Athlon 3200
1G Corsair
Chaintech NForce 6600
DVD-RW, CD
500W PSU

 

[saltedeggman]

is it set correctly with master/slave?

 

[zepplinswt]

it is set to master, it's the only drive on IDE0. There is no slave.

 

[dunkster]

Are you using the Nvidia IDE driver? Some have had problems with this driver when attempting to reconfigure IDE devices.

If that's the problem, you should be able to roll back the driver to standard Windows IDE driver. Worked for me.

Hope this helps!

 

[zepplinswt]

well, that didn't work. rolled back the nvidia driver for ide controller still hanging...it detects the drive then says "primary master...." and stops, symbols at the top of the screen appears and have to power it off. i went into the bios and i think it sees the drive....when the drive is not hooked up it says none for primary and slave, but when the drive is connected it says the following..

capacity 0
cylinder 65280
landing zone 65279
all other options are 0

any other recommendations??

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Is there a jumper setting for single drive? Sometimes this is different than master.

You can try cable select too.

 

[Jiggz]

The hdd could be dead. Do you hear a whining sound to indicate it still rotates? Have you tested it on a different system or at least connect it by itself. Disconnect the SATA and boot with just the 30 GB hdd connected using winxp CD. If it boots, go ahead and format the hdd or better yet re-partitioned it. But if it still hangs with just the 30 gb hdd connected, the hdd is probably faulty. You can try another hdd just to find out it's not the mobo doing it.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Is there a jumper setting for single drive? Sometimes this is different than master.

You can try cable select too.

30 gig is an oooold drive and won't be compatible with CS.


What is the mfg. date on that drive?


Ausm

 

[zepplinswt]

mfg date on drive is september 14 2002 -

ok, i tried disconnecting the SATA and booted off the IDE. It booted into windows 2000 and died with blue screen, said it was missing a system file? then added the winxp cd and powered off then on, it detected the drive and I booted off the cd. Drop the existing partition and created a new partition. Connected the SATA drive and IDE back and it still hung during detection of drive. how do you know if the drive is bad....this drive came from my dad's computer i built him two years ago, he started getting blue screens, etc but i thought it was motherboard related...cheepy ecs board. guess it could have been the drive all along...?? but could use the extra storage if i can get it working. anyways...will try the drive in another computer...

 

[Arcanedeath]

If the drive is a western digtial, be aware that the jumper setting for master is different that the jumper setting for being a stand alone drive (eg Master is only for the drive if it has a slave on the same channel, Single or Stand alone is how the jumper should be set if thats the only drive on it's IDE channel) Hope this helps...

 

[zepplinswt]

ok, figured it out. it was the ide cable. moved the drive to another machine and it booted, saw the drive, formatted it in windows. pop it back into the new machine, same problem. changed out the ide cable and it worked. thanks for all the suggestions...