I have several questions and any help is greatly appreciated.
I just bought an ATA/100 (7200rpm) WD 80 GB hard drive that I made a slave to my WD 8.4 GB (5400rpm) ATA/66. I want it this way because I need the storage for my mp3's, movies, etc., and I don't want them on the same drive as my operating system. I installed an Ultra 100 PCI bus (Promise Technology) card to connect my WD80 to, and then I plugged my 8.4 back into the motherboard. So they're obviously on different cables. My PC boots up just fine, but it won't recognize my two CD-ROM's. The BIOS finds them, but there's a yellow exclamation point by them in device manager. It says something in the registry is missing or corrupt. I uninstalled them, reinstalled them, and the same thing happened again. I didn't try plugging both into the PCI card, in fear of it really slowing down my new drive. There are two ports on the card though. So would that slow it down if they're both plugged into the card on separate cables? And if not, what if it still gives me CD-ROM problems when I do? It's all a big mess to me and I just want to know the best thing to do to make my WD80 run at full speed, which reminds me of another thing. How do you do a speed test on hard drives? Thanks!
I just bought an ATA/100 (7200rpm) WD 80 GB hard drive that I made a slave to my WD 8.4 GB (5400rpm) ATA/66. I want it this way because I need the storage for my mp3's, movies, etc., and I don't want them on the same drive as my operating system. I installed an Ultra 100 PCI bus (Promise Technology) card to connect my WD80 to, and then I plugged my 8.4 back into the motherboard. So they're obviously on different cables. My PC boots up just fine, but it won't recognize my two CD-ROM's. The BIOS finds them, but there's a yellow exclamation point by them in device manager. It says something in the registry is missing or corrupt. I uninstalled them, reinstalled them, and the same thing happened again. I didn't try plugging both into the PCI card, in fear of it really slowing down my new drive. There are two ports on the card though. So would that slow it down if they're both plugged into the card on separate cables? And if not, what if it still gives me CD-ROM problems when I do? It's all a big mess to me and I just want to know the best thing to do to make my WD80 run at full speed, which reminds me of another thing. How do you do a speed test on hard drives? Thanks!
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