Problem with boot-up using ata100 controller w/winxp

[GenerationYscorpio]

Asus a7v133a kt133a
Windows XP pro.


I have recently purchased a new hard drive on the post-thanksgiving sale.
My new drive is the Maxtor 40gig hard drive for back up purposes.
After swapping some cables for different hard drives. And after a restart
My original older hard drive that used to boot up can no longer be booted up
from the ATA-100 interface. The ATA100 came with the motherboard and its build-in.
I am using winxp, the hard drive can be boot up in the normal ide card but when it
was switched to ata100 it failed to boot up and asked me for a boot up disk, and I tried
with other ata100 hard drive and it boot up fine and I even changed a new cable still
doesnt work. Can someone please give me a solution.

 

[GenerationYscorpio]

Also, now that I run in normal IDE mode instead of none-bootable ATA100 the system becomes laggy when there is some hard drive reading which was never the case when it worked in ata100 unless its in very heavy extensive hard drive activity.

Can I GET some HeLP please.

 

[lenknermj]

Gen,

Lemme see if I understand you clearly.

You have a mobo with 4 IDE connectors, two of which are NON-ATA100 and two which ARE, is that correct?

If so, then I'm guessing what you did was install the drive connected to the NONATA connectors when you built the machine.

If that's the case, there may be issues with the way that the two different controllers (even though they're integrated onto the mobo, they ARE different) write to and read from disks.

If what I've said so far is correct, then here is my suggestion for a solution. It may involve spending some money, unless you (or someone you know) is familiar with the underground freeware revolution (warez).

***FIRST OFF ALL*** Before you do any of the following, make sure that your drive jumpers are correct. You can use CableSelect mode, but you have to make sure that the proper connecter on the ribbon cable is connected to the correct drive...I can't remember which is which, so I recommend forcing MASTER or SLAVE. If you only had one drive in your machine before, this may very well be the problem that you're having (jumper is set incorrectly). Refer to your hard drive label for correct jumper location. You'll want to make sure that your OLD hard drive is jumpered as MASTER, and the NEW drive is jumpered as SLAVE if they're sharing a single ribbon cable.


Get a copy of Norton Ghost on diskette(www.Symantec.com). You'll want the version that runs from DOS mode, not the Windows GUI version.

Connect the OLD hard drive to the original connector on the mobo. Connect the NEW hard drive to an ATA100 connector.

Using GHOST, copy the ENTIRE OLD hard drive to the new one. When complete, shut down the machine.

Connect the OLD hard drive to the ATA100 controller, and boot with a bootable floppy disk. Once at the A:> prompt, put your GHOST disk in. Using GHOST, copy the ENTIRE NEW HARD DRIVE back to the OLD one. (Note, this should be faster too, since both drives are now on ATA100 controllers).

Remove the NEW hard drive, just to test to make sure the machine can see (and will boot from) the old hard drive on the ATA100 controller.

If it does not, then you may have more problems than I can see.

If it DOES work, then just put the new hard drive back in the machine and go to town!!