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I got a 20gig WD Caviar (WD200) off an old HP Pavilion and I want to use the drive for some extra storage space.
The problem is that the drive will not post and will drive the boot process to a complete stop in my MSI K7N2 Delta2 LSR mobo. (It hangs at Detecting IDE Drives ...)
The drive worked fine in the HP Pavilion, In my old P-II/Soyo 6ba+ and in a Asus P4C800E. It contains a bootable Win98 that I could eventually get to boot with no problems on all of the above systems. But I am not really looking to boot with that drive - if I could just get the darn thing to post I would zero it and hook it up as a slave or a master to my CD-ROM. But it does not work in any master/slave config - even with just that HDD plugged in as a master.
The strange thing is that I have one identical model # 20gig WD caviar plugged in as my boot drive right now - and I never have any problems with it. I also have a WD600 as a slave to the boot drive...
Any ideas how I can get that drive to show up on POST?
I got a 20gig WD Caviar (WD200) off an old HP Pavilion and I want to use the drive for some extra storage space.
The problem is that the drive will not post and will drive the boot process to a complete stop in my MSI K7N2 Delta2 LSR mobo. (It hangs at Detecting IDE Drives ...)
The drive worked fine in the HP Pavilion, In my old P-II/Soyo 6ba+ and in a Asus P4C800E. It contains a bootable Win98 that I could eventually get to boot with no problems on all of the above systems. But I am not really looking to boot with that drive - if I could just get the darn thing to post I would zero it and hook it up as a slave or a master to my CD-ROM. But it does not work in any master/slave config - even with just that HDD plugged in as a master.
The strange thing is that I have one identical model # 20gig WD caviar plugged in as my boot drive right now - and I never have any problems with it. I also have a WD600 as a slave to the boot drive...
Any ideas how I can get that drive to show up on POST?