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chrisj13 · 04-15-2008, 03:39 PM

Hi everyone,

I saw that someone had a similiar error message as me, and the problem was resolved. Unfortunately, I am still receiving errors.

I am running winxp sp2 and have two hard drives. They have run perfectly fine for around 4 years. Recently, I noticed that a case fan was dead, so I replaced the fan and took out an old floppy drive. Upon plugging everything back in, I found that my boot process would freeze on "Detecting IDE drives". When I disconnected the secondary IDE, I could get into windows, but the computer runs 50% slower and the audio crackles whenever files are opened.

Next, I opened up the case again and saw that my old IDE cable was a bit frayed in spots, so I decided to replace it with an ATA133 dual device cable.

Now, I can still only boot into Windows when only the primary IDE is hooked up, but when I use the secondary HD I get the error message in the thread subject.

I originally thought that maybe the secondary drive died, but why would the first HD act up as well. Is there a setting I can fix? It's frustrating when both hard drives worked for years.

04-15-2008, 03:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
chrisj13 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 22 OS: XP SP2	Secondary IDE channel no 80 conductor cable installed (Different from [CLOSED] thread Hi everyone, I saw that someone had a similiar error message as me, and the problem was resolved. Unfortunately, I am still receiving errors. I am running winxp sp2 and have two hard drives. They have run perfectly fine for around 4 years. Recently, I noticed that a case fan was dead, so I replaced the fan and took out an old floppy drive. Upon plugging everything back in, I found that my boot process would freeze on "Detecting IDE drives". When I disconnected the secondary IDE, I could get into windows, but the computer runs 50% slower and the audio crackles whenever files are opened. Next, I opened up the case again and saw that my old IDE cable was a bit frayed in spots, so I decided to replace it with an ATA133 dual device cable. Now, I can still only boot into Windows when only the primary IDE is hooked up, but when I use the secondary HD I get the error message in the thread subject. I originally thought that maybe the secondary drive died, but why would the first HD act up as well. Is there a setting I can fix? It's frustrating when both hard drives worked for years.