If you don't feel like troubleshooting things to see if you have an issue with your motherboard's ide controller I always have a promise pci hard drive controller with it's own bios laying around here for situations just like you are describing.
I normally respond with thorough answers but it appears that the 500GB Sata is where you are headed so I will offer this as a cheap solution that very well may put you back in business instead of going down the check list. It's easy to say reset the bios to factory,etc. But this is a very cheap way to isolate things. In your bios you would simply tell it to boot from an "add in card" or if that is not listed, SCSI is another option.
Here's a link for an el cheapo that would do the trick. Hey I'd let you borrow one of mine but I presume we aren't exactly neighbors, lol.
This is the poor man's version of the promise card based on the via chipset. If the internal bios on the card sees your drive you will certainly need to load a driver via XP in order to boot from it but I wouldn't worry about that till you see if the card bios detects it and not the system bios.
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?inv...VT6410&cat=CCD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816124006
I'm guessing one of the guys from the HD team may come out here with some troubleshooting tips as well.
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Originally Posted by one bad mudder
I have 2 ide HDD that I have used for over a year. I had them out of the machine for 2-3 months while I worked on other parts of the PC and my Jeep. When I put them back in The pc says it is trying to find them then says they arent there and moves on. In another PC of mine it just goes past them. And they arent in the my computer list.
I have tried 3 different cables with them. I have tried them one at a time. and as master and slave. I even tried them as slave on the primary ide cable in place of the DVD RW. They worked perfect until I took them out.
Sorry but I posted this as part of a XP software thread, before I noticed the HDD group. The other issues I posted over there are resolved.
When I get them working Im going to add them to my main machine with a raid card i have. I had them hooked up that way once before but they werent stable. They would show up now and then, but never both everytime. Gotta figure that one out next. It would be easy to just go buy a 500 gb SATA HDD but what challange is that?
Im only doing this because I have them, and I need space, and cant justify buying a new HDD if I have 2 sitting here that "worked".
Hit me up with what if any questions you guys have.
All my "spare" money is going into my 1991 Jeep Wrangler project. I have another 2 grand In parts and tools to spend before the jeep is "done" they are really never done. But I plan to mod a case to look as much like the Jeep as I can when the Jeep is done and this PC is working the way it should.
Thank you guys for all the help in the past present and future.
Eric/V1PER/
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