I tried HOOKING up a 60 gig IDE hard DRIVE to my ASUS A8N5X motherboard and its not detecting it.

The computer is already set up with windows Xp and windows 98 on 2 seperate Sata2 hard drives.

The IDE hard drive is compatible with the motherboard from what I know, and Ive tired installing it with several different jumper positions. Although Id PREFER to have it on as a secondary slave drive. All I want to do is reformat the drive so I can give it to a friend.

Things Ive tried.....

I tried putting it in a different IDE port by removing the DVD burner.

I tried removing the Sata2 hard drives and installing the IDE drive as a master.

I tried all 3 different jumper positions on the IDE drive.


Yet every time I boot the computer up the drive is not detected. If you need more details about the computer just let me know. I don't know if there is an operating system on the IDE drive but I don't think there is. I also have no drivers for the IDE drive but I figured I didn't need drivers. Ive never tried hooking an IDE drive to a computer already using SATA technology.

Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance. where is it not being detected? in the BIOS or in windows?It was about a week ago, but im pretty sure neither the bios or windows detected the driveQuote from: Mikenet2008 on April 14, 2008, 04:06:25 AM

It was about a week ago, but im pretty sure neither the bios or windows detected the drive

try to put it on a primary slave...

I got it to work thankfully, the problem was just that the power cord I was using was not supplying power to the hard drive. I tried using another one and it detected it right away. Thanks anyway though.