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letulechuga

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well i have two western digitals. a WD 1200JB and a WD2000 JB (both are IDE)
both of them came in a system i got off of these forums. the mobo is a P4PE by ASUS.

problem #1
-i can't install a system on the WD2000Jb. (i tried on various systems with various BIOS's)
-it gets recognized when put into a system as a slave, but it can't be formatted to more than 127GB.

Problem #2
-when both of the hdds are installed into the system everything works, but the pc won't boot if the WD 2000JB is removed. (the OS is installed onto the WD1200)

Problem #3

-everytime i reboot, the system asks for a system (Winxp install) CD; it won't start otherwise.


please help me out folks!
Thanks in advance.
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CraigRT

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Originally posted by: Husky55
Could be jumpers problem.

Set both drives to cable select and see what happens.


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I would say more like set 1 to master, and the other to cable select.
Or better yet, put each HDD on the master or secondary IDE all together and seperate them from the single ribbon. As for the 127GB limitation, that's a pre-SP1 (IIRC) problem, and can easily be fixed once you boot into windoze, (I did it once, but I don't remember the procedure - Google should fix that)
These issues don't sound like anything scary, it's just a matter of the drives being in the right spot on the ribbons/correct jumper settings, and the 127GB limit is fixable.
 
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letulechuga

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1) But i couldn't install windows onto the 200 GB in a different system (by itself).
2) on my other ide ribbon i have 2 Drives (CDRW and DVD)
3) what is IIRC? and windoze? or did you mean windows.
 
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CraigRT

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Originally posted by: letulechuga
1) But i couldn't install windows onto the 200 GB in a different system (by itself).
2) on my other ide ribbon i have 2 Drives (CDRW and DVD)
3) what is IIRC? and windoze? or did you mean windows.
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1. What was the problem with installing in the other system exactly? specific details
2. unhook one of them for testing, it's not like you need both just to install windoze.
3. IIRC - "if I recall correctly" and yes Windoze = Windows.. common hax0r talk.
 
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