Sucess At Last

[clocker]

Your hamster must be very tired.

[Champ]

Ok woke up this mornin diconnected reconnected, reset the jumpers on hdd turn it on it loads instantly and reckognizes hdd thanks guys idk what out of all that it was but it works... now im goin to attempt to install windows lol could be a long day

(first builds suck if u dont no what ur doin)

[clocker]

Originally posted by Champ@23 June 2004 - 07:32


(first builds suck if u dont no what ur doin)

If "u dont no what ur doin" it doesn't get any better either.

[Champ]

wait bad news... Hard disc error... WTF so i restart and cant get it to detect the hdd now

if i have an external usb hdd, can i us that to boot and store windows on? even thogh i didnt install the drivers... (Buslink USB Hard Drive)

[tesco]

To use the usb hard drive: Go into bios, find legacy usb support, enable all the USB type stuff that you can.

Now you can install to that hard drive.

[Champ]

ok thanks ill update ya when i finish

also what should it be with a hard disc error.. anything to do or the hdd is just toast

and what is ARMD?

[Champ]

K i found the prob now im installin Xp

I was like hmm the cd drive works as secondary ill put it in the primary slot and the hdd in secondary.. bam hdd works, cd drive doesnt... so i figure its the primary reciever that sux so i put the ide cable in secondary, run cdburner/dvd rom as master and hdd as slave

is that setup ok or do ureccomend cd be slave and hdd master?

EDIT: also, xp asked if i wanted to partition and i tried to partition 500mb for it but i couldnt clear the default partition of the full hdd, so i just said install, will i be able to save stuff on the hdd? and how do i create partitions without reinstalling... (i need 3 1gb partitions for my fam members

[tesco]

Hard drive should be primary master

could be teh ide cable causing teh problems...

[Champ]

is it a big deal if its not master?

i guess i could switch it lol but secondary works and the computer works with it as slave lol

i just dont wanna fuck it up

[lynx]

You risk having any number of problems with that configuration.
XT may work, but if you later need to use some other OS for problem solving purposes chances are it will fail. It shouldn't be a big problem to swap master and slave.

Regarding your 1.5 minutes to post, that again sounds like an ide configuration problem. It usually occurs when you've told the system what drive is where, but then changed or removed a drive. You can usually avoid this problem by setting all drives to "Auto".