Right heres my problem, my friend sold me this PC because he just got a new one, it was working fine. I brought it home and started it up and i got an error saying A Disk Read Error Occured please prest ctrl alt del and restart. I then found out the hdd had the click of death, so i bought a new one (sata 160gb) plugged it in the next day and the error went but! I received a new one saying Disk Boot Failure Insert System Disk And Press Enter. So i have played around with the settings and it still wont work... i even got a xp disk put it in an it seems like its not reading the disk? But the light it on for the Cd-Rom drive.
Now my HDD is Sata like i said but my CD-ROM Drive has the IDE Cable, now i have enabled S.m.a.r.t because it said it was disabled, i have changed aorund the boot order so many times... But it obv wont boot from HDD because it will have no data on there as it is new... and it wont read any disk's... The next thing i was wondering is that can you have 2 master channels E.G Channel 1 Master - CD-ROM
Channel 2 Master - None
Channel 3 Master - HDD So i played around and changed it to IDE Channel 1 Slave
IDE Channel 2 Master ?? I coudlnt work out how to make the HDD which is channel 2 to go to channel 1 so there would be a master and a slave? Please help me i am only 17 and im doing a course at college for computing and now this has really downed me in computing not knowing how to fix this issue. Thanks
Now my HDD is Sata like i said but my CD-ROM Drive has the IDE Cable, now i have enabled S.m.a.r.t because it said it was disabled, i have changed aorund the boot order so many times... But it obv wont boot from HDD because it will have no data on there as it is new... and it wont read any disk's... The next thing i was wondering is that can you have 2 master channels E.G Channel 1 Master - CD-ROM
Channel 2 Master - None
Channel 3 Master - HDD So i played around and changed it to IDE Channel 1 Slave
IDE Channel 2 Master ?? I coudlnt work out how to make the HDD which is channel 2 to go to channel 1 so there would be a master and a slave? Please help me i am only 17 and im doing a course at college for computing and now this has really downed me in computing not knowing how to fix this issue. Thanks