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Fixing IDE Channel Assignments?

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SleepyGreggy

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For some reason my Primary IDE master/slave channels are empty, the Secondary Master/Slave is occupied by my burner and DVD respectively and Third IDE is my HD. I want to reformat Windows but if i boot up with a bootdisk, it can't find C:. I'm thinking this is because my HD isn't on the primary channel. How would I go about switching the HD to Primary IDE Master. Thanks

P4P800
2.6C
WD Raptor
 
Either put the Hard drive on IDE 1 as the master, make sure jumper pins are correct, or if you already have it on IDE 3 it's a raid controller and when you start the install process press F6 and load the raid drivers from a floppy and then you can reformat or do a fresh install.
Set your bios to read CDRom first, put in the CD Operating system , boot up , it will ask you boot from cd, answer yes, after it loads the cd drivers it will take you to the C: prompt , if not change to the appropriate cd drive letter usually D: after windows loads the cdrom drivers.
Type setup and it will start loading, press F6 and load the Raid drivers for the correct OS from a floppy with the drivers on it. You can then reformat or install from there.
 
I'm a little confused. I have ICH5R raid built into my motherboard but I've never used it. I don't even think I have drivers for it. Also, when I boot off the Windows XP cd i think it detects a working install and takes me straight back into windows... What exactly should I set the jumper to on the back of the Raptor to have it correctly assigned to Primary IDE Master? Thanks again.
 
Being in the middle of similar problems I'll jump in...

The jumper on the back of the raptor needs no adjustment. Just leave it where it is.

If you are not using RAID via the ICH5R controller (e.g. you have just one Raptor drive) then you don't need to do the F6/RAID driver install thing.

I'm assuming you are installing XP? This is what worked for me. Until I did this I couldn't get the computer to see the Raptor. When doing your fresh install, try pulling everything except the raptor and one optical drive. Go into bios and have the computer boot from the optical drive. When Setup starts, I would suggest you delete the old partition, and reformat (rather than try and salvage the old settings). Then let XP install itself.

This is where I am at now. I will now go and reinstall the other peripherals from within windows. We'll see...


You can check this thread(describing my own sad tale of woe) to either find more clues or to decide the above is completely worthless to you...🙂

ASW
 
Problems: I can't get into Windows XP install other than after Windows loads up... where I get the option to add components. I can boot off a win98se floppy but when i type c:, i get invalid drive or the like (ie format c: /q). I'm sure that if the Raptor is switched to IDE 1 then this problem will be remedied and i'll be able to format and do a clean install. I have documents, pictures, etc.. on my D:, a separate partition that needs to be salvaged. Do you think if I unplugged both optical drives, booted off my bootdisk, format c: /q, turn off computer, replug opticals, reinstall... it should work?? or will it automatically reassign the channels back to Optical, Optical, HD (1,2,3 respectively). Thanks again. I really dont think f6 is the solution because it is detecting the presence of my HD and i currently have a somewhat functional install of Windows that had been running for a month before I screwed it up.. So is it safe to assume the jumpers on the Raptor should remain untouched? I'm also about 95% sure it's plugged into SATA 1.

Thanks again.,
 
First, leave the jumpers where they were when you got the drive new.

I also agree that the F6 thing is not for you.

Not sure what you mean by "I can't get into Windows XP install other than after Windows loads up... where I get the option to add components." Have you tried this:

1. unplug all except the raptor, the video card and one optical drive.

2. go into bios and set the machine to boot first from the optical drive, then the raptor.

3. put the XP disk into the optical drive and reboot. XP setup will start.

4. At some point early in the install process (you'd think I would have this memorized I've seen it about a hundred times this week) you are given the option to do the following, which you should do: delete the existing c partition on the raptor; reformat the raptor under NTFS. I think you should be able to leave your d partition intact but can't verify that from my own experience.

5. Once that is done, XP setup will present you with the option to create a partition. Again, I haven't done this but I believe you could recreate your C partition here. Tell the install program you want to install XP to that partition. It will set up a partition and copy lots of stuff to the raptor. (I just treated the raptor as one big C partition, which made life simpler for me...you DID backup the stuff on your D partition recently? 😱 )

6. The computer will reboot as a part of the install. At this point, at least in my world, the computer saw the raptor, booted into windows and all is well. You can then reinstall the other devices on your system one by one.

In my forray through the net in pursuit of an answer to my problem there were many mentions of some kind of unexplained hardware conflict that causes these problems. in addition to pulling all the peripherals, others suggested turning off everything possible in bios (eg. firewire, onboard sound/lan, etc). I didn't try that (yet) because so far it hasn't been necessary.

Dewdman, good luck.

ASW
 
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