Chaintech VNF3-250, IDE drive install issue(Help!!)

[jvn14]

I am not able to add maxtor 200 GB drive (ata 133 ide) drive. When I attach the drive win XP does not boot and it reboots again. And this goes on..
In bios, drive shows up correctly.
I tried:
- attaching to as master/CSEL to Primary IDE controlller.
- As slave drive (master CDROM)
- On secondary IDE controller, as master/csel

The drive was working fine on my other DELL PC.

If I do not add the maxtor drive, my PC runs fine and it is able to boot win xp from the 160 GB SATA drive.


My config:
AMD 64 3200
Chaintech VNF3-250 mb (beta bios as 5/7/04),
Kingston hyperx 512MB
Seagate 160 GB drive (partitioned as 40GB(boot) and 120 GB)

Please help. If you need more information, please let me know.

 

[mechBgon]

If the drive was a boot drive in your Dell, it may be that your mobo is trying to boot from the 200GB drive.

Drive: ~ whoa... we're not in Kansas anymore, Toto...

If that's the case, you may need to manually specify which hard drive you want the system to boot from in the BIOS, now that it has more than one to choose from, at least until you can get into Windows and delete the 200GB's paritions and reformat it. What's your other hard drive?

alternate solution: boot from your Windows CD, start Setup, and play along until it gets to where your drives' partitions are listed. Now delete the partitions from the 200GB drive and hit F3 to halt Setup.

 

[jvn14]

Thanks for a quick reply.
Yes it was a boot drive in the other pc. I will re-install the drive on my old pc. And try to backup some of the information on it.
I do not want to format the drive. Is there an alternate way without removing the boot partition ?

My other hardrdive is a single 160gb Seagate SATA drive (40GB and 120 GB partition)


Thanks

 

[mechBgon]

Go into your BIOS and enter the Advanced BIOS Setup menu. There should be First Boot Device, Second Boot Device, Third Boot Device... Chaintech's manual is dismal in terms of the detail level they offer on the BIOS stuff, so I'm going by feel here. :frown:

Your motherboard's SATA controller may be one of the options for First Boot Device. If so, select it. It may also be generically classed as "SCSI," so if you don't see SATA, choose "SCSI" instead, then save & exit, and see if she boots from the SATA drive now. Good luck!

 

[jvn14]

That worked. I chose SCSI device as first boot drive for my SATA drive. Now it does not try to boot from the IDE drive.

Many Thanks!!

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: jvn14
That worked. I chose SCSI device as first boot drive for my SATA drive. Now it does not try to boot from the IDE drive.

Many Thanks!!

excellent Enjoy your new rig