Need Help Installing Hard Drive

Starks · 12-09-2007, 08:39 PM

Hey All,

I'm currently trying to hook up my old IDE Diamond Max Plus 9 hard drive.

I am currently running a new Western Digital SATA drive hooked up to my Asus M2N32-SLI Premium mobo. All I am trying to do is add this old IDE hard drive to the mobo and run it as a slave/secondary.

I cannot get my BIOS to recognize anything plugged into the IDE slot. I am using brand new IDE cables right out of the package, I have verified that the IDE hard drive has power and I have also verified that the hard drive works on an older Asus mobo.

Anyone know what I could be doing wrong or if I am missing a step? Or if I can even run this IDE drive with a newer SATA drive?

Any help would be much appreciated.

**Doby** · 12-09-2007, 08:51 PM

If the drive is the only ide drive attached to the cable make sure its jumper is set to MA (master) and it is on the end of the cable

You should have no trouble getting it to work with a sata boot drive installed in the system

Starks · 12-09-2007, 09:07 PM

I appreciate that fast response. I did infact have the jumper on the IDE drive set to slave. I pulled it out and set it to the master slot. Unfortunately, I went back into the BIOS and it is displaying None for both the IDE slots.

Does that fact that I pulled the IDE drive right out of my old computer cause a problem? My main goal was to pull old data off of it and use it on my new computer.

My apologies for the noob questions.

**Doby** · 12-10-2007, 12:26 PM

Quote:

Does that fact that I pulled the IDE drive right out of my old computer cause a problem? My main goal was to pull old data off of it and use it on my new computer.

Nope it should work, reseat all cables again, try a different power connector off the psu.

In bios make sure the ide controller is not disabled if your bios has such a option

12-09-2007, 08:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
Starks Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2 OS: XP, SP2	Need Help Installing Hard Drive Hey All, I'm currently trying to hook up my old IDE Diamond Max Plus 9 hard drive. I am currently running a new Western Digital SATA drive hooked up to my Asus M2N32-SLI Premium mobo. All I am trying to do is add this old IDE hard drive to the mobo and run it as a slave/secondary. I cannot get my BIOS to recognize anything plugged into the IDE slot. I am using brand new IDE cables right out of the package, I have verified that the IDE hard drive has power and I have also verified that the hard drive works on an older Asus mobo. Anyone know what I could be doing wrong or if I am missing a step? Or if I can even run this IDE drive with a newer SATA drive? Any help would be much appreciated.

12-09-2007, 08:51 PM	#2 (permalink)
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12-09-2007, 09:07 PM	#3 (permalink)
Starks Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2 OS: XP, SP2	Re: Need Help Installing Hard Drive I appreciate that fast response. I did infact have the jumper on the IDE drive set to slave. I pulled it out and set it to the master slot. Unfortunately, I went back into the BIOS and it is displaying None for both the IDE slots. Does that fact that I pulled the IDE drive right out of my old computer cause a problem? My main goal was to pull old data off of it and use it on my new computer. My apologies for the noob questions.