New Motherboard - Existing Hard Drive

[Maxinator]

I recently purchased a new motherboard ASUS Maximus Formula, and have an existing hard drive, WD 500GB Caviar SE16 that was installed as a second hard drive in a dual boot system. This drive has WinXP x64 installed on it.

When I hook up the HDD with the new motherboard the drive is not recognized after post. It does show up in the BIOS.

Many Thanks

Derek

 

[o1die]

I would go into the bios and check your boot order. Also be sure your sata mode is set to ide. If you can get past the post screen, use safe mode to install the sata driver off your motherboard cd or boot up to a floppy with the sata driver. I use maxblast to create a floppy diskette with the sata driver. Other hardrives have similar software. Maxblast can also make an exact copy while in windows using your old drive. It will recognize your sata drive as "other device" allowing you to make it the new boot device, then erase, partition, and make an exact copy from your old drive.

 

[Harvey]

You didn't say whether your drive is SATA or PATA. If it's PATA, be sure the jumper is set correctly as Master, Slave or Cable Select.

Three issues to consider in PATA setups:

1. When using Cable Select, the system will recognize the drive at the far end of the cable as the Master, and the one on the middle connector as the slave. If you have two drives on the one IDE channel, setting either drive as anything other than CS could screw up the way the board recognizes one or both drives.

2. If the physical layout of your setup doesn't allow easy routing of the cables to accomodate the above connection order, you should set the jumpers on each drive as Master or Slave. This forces the priority order, regardless of which connector is attached to which drive.

3. I've seen some boards, even newer ones, that don't handle Cable Select well. Sometimes, it's only with particular brands of drives. I can't recall which boards and which drives, but I know I've seen the problem on a few Asus boards and with a few WD drives.

This may not be the problem, but if setting the jumpers to force the Master/Slave assignment works on your system and Cable Select doesn't, you'll have your answer.

Good luck.