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offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2006-05-13 11:01 [#01898055]
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The motherboard on my old PC is fried, and rather than
shell out the money to replace an aging AGP pc, I just went
ahead and bought a new athlon 64 system that is PCI-express
(yay).

I still have 90 gigs of stuff on my old harddrives that I
would like to transfer over to my new 200gb harddrive. The
new one is SATA, while the old ones are EIDE. I don't think
this should matter when connecting both at the same time,
but for some reason all the jumper settings on my old
harddrives dont seem to work. I've tried master, slave, and
CS (which I think stands for computer select), and every
time I try to boot it tells me its missing boot files. I
assume this is because it's trying to load the from the
wrong harddrives. I think there may be something that I have
to do in the BIOS coupled with having the jumper on the
right setting. I just don't know what to look for in the
bios or if this is even the right place to be searching.
Anyway, I'll be posting this at a couple computer forums
too, but I just thought I'd post it here, too, since I know
some people here are knowledgeable with computers. Thanks in
advance. :)


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2006-05-13 11:13 [#01898059]
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Bios should be set to auto for everything. I'm assuming
Windows is installed on the new HD already, right?

Sometimes you have to specify master instead of cable select
on the actual master and slave on the slave in order to
boot.

It depends on the model of hard drives, whcih ones you're
combining, and etc.

You'd think cable select would work on everything but
sometimes it doesn't and you ahve to specify.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2006-05-13 11:20 [#01898065]
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CS = cable select, ok got it. hehe. :)

I never actually checked the jumper setting on the new HD. I
assumed it was on master, but it could be on cable select,
so I'll have to check that out. and i'll make sure that the
bios is set to auto for everything. Thank you for your help
mr. mouse. :)


 

offline mimi on 2006-05-13 12:08 [#01898085]
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Try leaving a large magnet on top the monitor for a few
hours. If it doesn't fix your computer, it should at least
get psychedelic for a little while.


 

offline QRDL from Poland on 2006-05-13 12:20 [#01898089]
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If an operating system is installed on the new HD, than the
IDE drive must be over the SATA drive in the boot sequence
in BIOS. Just find a setting "boot sequence" (or something
similar) in BIOS.

I assume the system starts properly without the IDE drive
added. Does it?


 

offline QRDL from Poland on 2006-05-13 12:23 [#01898091]
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And "auto for everything" in BIOS is a little bit ambiguous.
Different BIOSes, different settings, different autos -
don't put everything on auto.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2006-05-13 14:54 [#01898140]
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thanks for the advice, but yeah I was planning on just
putting harddrive stuff on auto, not the whole bios. :)

Also, the computer boots fine without the ide drives
installed, yes. I have to go to work now, but when I get
home I'll check out the boot sequence settings in the bios.
Thanks again for your advice QRDL and fleetmouse.


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2006-05-13 16:27 [#01898174]
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Yeah, heh heh, I mean you shouldn't have to enter
cylinders/heads /etc - the bios should detect that for you
in any computer built since medieval times. But you can also
set it to "none" which won't work very well. :-/


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2006-05-13 16:41 [#01898177]
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Thanks again for your advice QRDL and fleetmouse.

"and mimi"... you meant to say.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2006-05-13 21:14 [#01898359]
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of course, but her advice was so useful that my gratitude
goes without saying.


 


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