IDE devices not detected

[Virtualbody1234]

Both drive on independant IDE cables? Check the jumpers on the drives. Some drives have settings for 'single drive' and won't work if not set to single.

In the BIOS... Set it to 'Auto' or go into the section that is for 'detecting' and let it do that. If that doesn't work then you'll have to set the drives manually (#cyls, #sec. etc.)

Edit: Forget my post. I missed the second page altogether.

[Virtualbody1234]

just discovered my slipstream cd wont boot either

Check the boot sequence in the BIOS. Put the CD drive before the HDDs.

[DanB]

Check the boot sequence in the BIOS. Put the CD drive before the HDDs.

i did, my normal XP cd works ok.

said something about code5 and no NTLDR

[Afronaut]

Is it unattended, slipstreamed Windows, XP?

I'd use WinIso or something to extract the Windows cd to folder somewhere and
tweak it with nLite:

http://nuhi.msfn.org/





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[DanB]

I got another problem now though.

Put my 2nd hard drive into it now and although its picking it up right and showing it in device manager its not actually displaying it in my computer?

[bigdawgfoxx]

Is the drive formatted? If not go to disk managment and formatt it.
(Learned that from VB) lol

[DanB]

Is the drive formatted? If not go to disk managment and formatt it.
(Learned that from VB) lol

Does it have to be reformatted?

[Virtualbody1234]

Does it have to be reformatted?

If you reformat it then the data will be unavailable. If there is data on the drive that you want then I think you need to manually set the #cyls, #sects etc. to be the same as they were in the previous computer.

[DanB]

If you reformat it then the data will be unavailable. If there is data on the drive that you want then I think you need to manually set the #cyls, #sects etc. to be the same as they were in the previous computer.

That sounds confusing. I amanged to get it to work with a highly techinical method, I took it back out and put it back as it was, rebooted, turned it off then put it in again and rebooted and it showed up, pity it didn't the first couple of times

What I thought we take me 30mins today has taken abslolutely hours

Cheers for the help everyone