Went to friends house to help him move his stuff to his new coolermaster case. He also got a new WD3200AAKS (320g sata drive) that he wanted to install.
MOBO - MIS K8N NEO4
CPU - amd 3500+
He had two old IDE hard drives (20 gig and 40 gig) previously that he had files on that he wanted to use on his new system. So, moved all hardware successfully to new case, fired up the system, went to BIOS where new 320 was recognized. Set boot order and rebooted.
System booted to old IDE drive.
Ok, so I unhooked them, hooked ONLY new SATA drive up (btw, we're also installed a new SATA DVD drive but that part hasn't been an issue thusfar)
Booted with only SATA drive in. Installed windows (very quickly I might add) set the timezone, the language etc...
THen it prompted for a reboot.
I thought this was my opportunity to put the old IDE drives back in since all of the drivers and utilities were placed on them before the new install.
Booted up and it booted to old IDE drive.
Checked bios again, made SURE boot priority was set.
Same thing..
So, I was reading on the net looking for folks with similar issues and found a whole host of similar problems with no FIX.
So, I unplugged ide drives and thought I'd just boot up on the SATA drive, then install drivers via CD that I could burn on my laptop.
Bios sees sata just fine, then error about not having a drive or something.
Reboot, check bios, recheck connections, attempt repair of windows installation. It SEES the "old" new installation on the C drive, it will attempt a repair, then when it goes to reboot, no drive. (sorry cant remember exact error...
So, it was 3am, I decided to bring it home and work on it from here. I thought ok, I'll just load up windows on the ide drive, format the Sata from there and give it all another shot.
Oh, one of the "FIXES" listed on the net was to attempt a repair of windows on the sata drive. Well once when I did this it was on the IDE drive, not the sata drive. When it went into the install part it got stuck at "Windows will be installed in 34 minutes) FOREVER. It never finished install even after 4 hours. (had to get a few hours of sleep)
So, I am now UNABLE to boot to new sata drive, unable to reinstall windows to old IDE drive, (didn't want to WIPE it if I didn't have to)
So, I took the sata drive, out and tried putting it in my sons system. He currently has a sata drive as his boot drive and an IDE drive for storage. I unhooked the IDE drive to use the power connector (with a sata adapter) and hooked up the "new" 320 gig sata drive. Made sure it was seen in BIOS and boot priority was still to original sata drive...and I get: DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER...
SO, not only do I have my friends system in shambles...but now I've HOSED my son's PC as well...
HELP?!!?
MOBO - MIS K8N NEO4
CPU - amd 3500+
He had two old IDE hard drives (20 gig and 40 gig) previously that he had files on that he wanted to use on his new system. So, moved all hardware successfully to new case, fired up the system, went to BIOS where new 320 was recognized. Set boot order and rebooted.
System booted to old IDE drive.
Ok, so I unhooked them, hooked ONLY new SATA drive up (btw, we're also installed a new SATA DVD drive but that part hasn't been an issue thusfar)
Booted with only SATA drive in. Installed windows (very quickly I might add) set the timezone, the language etc...
THen it prompted for a reboot.
I thought this was my opportunity to put the old IDE drives back in since all of the drivers and utilities were placed on them before the new install.
Booted up and it booted to old IDE drive.
Checked bios again, made SURE boot priority was set.
Same thing..
So, I was reading on the net looking for folks with similar issues and found a whole host of similar problems with no FIX.
So, I unplugged ide drives and thought I'd just boot up on the SATA drive, then install drivers via CD that I could burn on my laptop.
Bios sees sata just fine, then error about not having a drive or something.
Reboot, check bios, recheck connections, attempt repair of windows installation. It SEES the "old" new installation on the C drive, it will attempt a repair, then when it goes to reboot, no drive. (sorry cant remember exact error...
So, it was 3am, I decided to bring it home and work on it from here. I thought ok, I'll just load up windows on the ide drive, format the Sata from there and give it all another shot.
Oh, one of the "FIXES" listed on the net was to attempt a repair of windows on the sata drive. Well once when I did this it was on the IDE drive, not the sata drive. When it went into the install part it got stuck at "Windows will be installed in 34 minutes) FOREVER. It never finished install even after 4 hours. (had to get a few hours of sleep)
So, I am now UNABLE to boot to new sata drive, unable to reinstall windows to old IDE drive, (didn't want to WIPE it if I didn't have to)
So, I took the sata drive, out and tried putting it in my sons system. He currently has a sata drive as his boot drive and an IDE drive for storage. I unhooked the IDE drive to use the power connector (with a sata adapter) and hooked up the "new" 320 gig sata drive. Made sure it was seen in BIOS and boot priority was still to original sata drive...and I get: DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER...
SO, not only do I have my friends system in shambles...but now I've HOSED my son's PC as well...
HELP?!!?