Solve : No boot after connecting second HD ???

1.	Solve : No boot after connecting second HD ???
Answer» I have a wellfunctioning PC with a brandnew asrock motherboard (socket 775) mounted with a 3GHz pentium4 , a 90GB HDD and a NEC 4550 DVD-drive together. Use WinXP SP2. But after physically connecting a new second (300GB) IDE Maxtor HDD I experience that the boot sequence STOPS! in line 78 right after the bios have recognized the two harddisks ("s.m.a.r.t. enabled and OK". The old (system) HDD is recognized as primary master while the new HDD is primary slave and the DVD is secondary slave). Same thing (bootsequence stops) happens if I try BOOTING from my WIN XP installationCD. As soon as I disconnect the new HDD (which is proven to be OK) everything works normal again. I would appreciate a hint to a solution to this sincere problem (the old HDD is almost full with holiday videos by now...). :-/ Is your first hard drive a western digital? A lot of WD hard drives have a jumper setting for master and another jumper setting for master/alone and yet another for slave.Are you sure you have the right ide cables where they're suppose to be? Like if you have the dvd on secondary slave what do you have for secondary master? Plus how have you got the boot sequences in order? Quote Is your first hard drive a western digital? A lot of WD hard drives have a jumper setting for master and another jumper setting for master/alone and yet another for slave. My first Harddrive is in fact a Maxtor but the new 300GB one which I'm trying to connect is a WD (not a Maxtor as I wrote yesterday, sorry!). I have both connected via the same IDE cable. I'll take a look on the jumpers of the WD. Jorgen Quote Are you sure you have the right ide cables where they're suppose to be? Like if you have the dvd on secondary slave what do you have for secondary master? Plus how have you got the boot sequences in order? Actually I think they were wrong (thank You for advice!) ! I have now connected the old Maxtor master HDD as primary master (as before), the DVD-drive as primary slave on the same 80 thread cable and finally the new WDCaviar HD as secondary master on another 80 thread cable (is it ok to connect it to the middle of the cable?). The WDCaviar jumper setting is "single or master" (guess it shouldn't be "master with slave present" as the DVD drive is on the primary cable). That sounds right to me!? But the same thing still happens: After the bios have recognized all the drives as described above the process stops in line 78 - no booting occurs!!?? Hope you have another suggestion? Jorgen Quote Are you sure you have the right ide cables where they're suppose to be? Like if you have the dvd on secondary slave what do you have for secondary master? [highlight]Plus how have you got the boot sequences in order?[/highlight] Is it set in your bios to boot from the right hard drive? Why don't you simplify things and remove all exept the primary hard drive. Does that work? If so, add one thing at a time and check to find where the problem is. Quote Quote Are you sure you have the right ide cables where they're suppose to be? Like if you have the dvd on secondary slave what do you have for secondary master? [highlight]Plus how have you got the boot sequences in order?[/highlight] Is it set in your bios to boot from the right hard drive? I'll try! Sound like a good idea. JørgenIs there an OS on this second HDD ? ? Do you have boot options in your BIOS ? ? It may have defaulted to the new HDD for some reason. P.S. Make only one change at a time and do a few re-boots each time...BIOS's are easily confused. patio. 8-)After I found out that my new WD HD didn't work after trying everything even another Asrock motherboard but worked OK with a motherboard of another brand, I finally bought another new HD (this time a Seagate) to try out if it just was a kind of INCOMPATIBILITY problem between WD and Asrock - and so it was! The new Seagate works fine on my computer, so I'm happy and have a spare WD HD on the shelf for my next computer! Thanks for all the good suggestions Jorgen I have never encountered this but glad to hear you are fixed up...STOP by anytime. patiio. 8-)

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I have a wellfunctioning PC with a brandnew asrock motherboard (socket 775) mounted with a 3GHz pentium4 , a 90GB HDD and a NEC 4550 DVD-drive together. Use WinXP SP2.
But after physically connecting a new second (300GB) IDE Maxtor HDD I experience that the boot sequence STOPS! in line 78 right after the bios have recognized the two harddisks ("s.m.a.r.t. enabled and OK". The old (system) HDD is recognized as primary master while the new HDD is primary slave and the DVD is secondary slave).
Same thing (bootsequence stops) happens if I try BOOTING from my WIN XP installationCD.
As soon as I disconnect the new HDD (which is proven to be OK) everything works normal again.
I would appreciate a hint to a solution to this sincere problem (the old HDD is almost full with holiday videos by now...). :-/

Is your first hard drive a western digital? A lot of WD hard drives have a jumper setting for master and another jumper setting for master/alone and yet another for slave.Are you sure you have the right ide cables where they're suppose to be? Like if you have the dvd on secondary slave what do you have for secondary master?
Plus how have you got the boot sequences in order? Quote

Is your first hard drive a western digital? A lot of WD hard drives have a jumper setting for master and another jumper setting for master/alone and yet another for slave.

My first Harddrive is in fact a Maxtor but the new 300GB one which I'm trying to connect is a WD (not a Maxtor as I wrote yesterday, sorry!). I have both connected via the same IDE cable.
I'll take a look on the jumpers of the WD.
Jorgen
Quote

Are you sure you have the right ide cables where they're suppose to be? Like if you have the dvd on secondary slave what do you have for secondary master?
Plus how have you got the boot sequences in order?

Actually I think they were wrong (thank You for advice!) ! I have now connected the old Maxtor master HDD as primary master (as before), the DVD-drive as primary slave on the same 80 thread cable and finally the new WDCaviar HD as secondary master on another 80 thread cable (is it ok to connect it to the middle of the cable?). The WDCaviar jumper setting is "single or master" (guess it shouldn't be "master with slave present" as the DVD drive is on the primary cable).
That sounds right to me!?
But the same thing still happens: After the bios have recognized all the drives as described above the process stops in line 78 - no booting occurs!!??
Hope you have another suggestion?
Jorgen

Quote

Are you sure you have the right ide cables where they're suppose to be? Like if you have the dvd on secondary slave what do you have for secondary master?
[highlight]Plus how have you got the boot sequences in order?[/highlight]

Is it set in your bios to boot from the right hard drive?
Why don't you simplify things and remove all exept the primary hard drive. Does that work? If so, add one thing at a time and check to find where the problem is. Quote

Quote
Are you sure you have the right ide cables where they're suppose to be? Like if you have the dvd on secondary slave what do you have for secondary master?
[highlight]Plus how have you got the boot sequences in order?[/highlight]

Is it set in your bios to boot from the right hard drive?

I'll try! Sound like a good idea.
JørgenIs there an OS on this second HDD ? ?

Do you have boot options in your BIOS ? ?

It may have defaulted to the new HDD for some reason.

P.S. Make only one change at a time and do a few re-boots each time...BIOS's are easily confused.

patio. 8-)After I found out that my new WD HD didn't work after trying everything even another Asrock motherboard but worked OK with a motherboard of another brand, I finally bought another new HD (this time a Seagate) to try out if it just was a kind of INCOMPATIBILITY problem between WD and Asrock - and so it was!
The new Seagate works fine on my computer, so I'm happy and have a spare WD HD on the shelf for my next computer!
Thanks for all the good suggestions
Jorgen
I have never encountered this but glad to hear you are fixed up...STOP by anytime.

patiio. 8-)

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