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W2K/BIOS not detecting sec. IDE cable

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by vas

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had two hard drives, and recently I bought and installed Windows 2000 Pro on a new hard drive.
I kept my hard drive that has Windows 98SE installed on it, and I hooked up the older two hard drives onto the secondary IDE cable as master and slave,and I plugged the new hard drive and the DVD drive into the primary cable.
When my computer starts up and tries to auto detect whats on the primary and secondary cable it only shows the devices on the primary cable.
I have a HPT366 bios so then the screen changes to blue and it shows the two hard drives on the secondary cable, but it says they are on the primary one.
Then once I boot into Windows 2000 Pro, it doesn't show ethier of those two hard drives, only the drive its installed on and the DVD drive.
In the device manager it shows two "mass storage controllers", which I am expecting to be the hard drives, but it asks for drivers, and I don't think they came with any.
But then if I unplug the hard drive on the primary cable, it will boot onto the secondary master, which is Windows 98SE. Once it boots it displays itself and the other hard drive on the secondary cable, so I know they are both working.
If it is needed, my motherboard is a BE6-II Abit, with 12/03/2001-I440BX-6A69KA19C-70 bios and version 1.25 HPT366 bios.

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by dmiles

Check the DVD drive and make sure the jumpers are set to slave on the Primary,then check the CMOS and see that you can set configuration to Auto or in the right pane use the IDE hard drive detection
Check the motherboard web site to make sure that you have the latest bios update.

Check the cables connected to the motherboard and hard drives to make sure that are secured properly.

by vas

I did all that.
The cables are fine because if I unplug the hard drive on the primary cable, it boots to the master on the secondary cable.

by thechas

The drivers that Windows is asking for are for your IDE controllers, not the hard drives.

The BE6-II has 4 IDE channels.
2 standard UDMA 33 channels from the Intel 440BX Chip-set
2 ATA-66 channels from the High Point 366 controller.

Where are your drives specifically connected?

I recommend the following setup.

Connect your Hard drives to the High Point controller.
C: to primary master
D: to either primary slave, or secondary master
E: to secondary master, or secondary slave.
Set the jumpers accordingly.

You will need to set the Abit BIOS to boot off of either SCSI, or on-board controller.
(the manual is just taking too long to download to get the specifics)

Connect your DVD drive as the Primary SLAVE drive on either the primary, or secondary IDE controller.

You will need to download and install the High Point Controller. I recommedn that you get the version that matches your High Point BIOS from ABit's web site.

Start here
http://www.abit-usa.com/downloads/driver/
To download your HPT 366 driver.

I also recommend installing the Intel IDE and AGP drivers.

Chas

by thechas

C: drive primary HPT is IDE connector 3
E: drive secondary HPT is IDE connector 4
DVD drive (F:) would be either IDE 1 (primary) or 2 (secondary)

If I'm reading the manual correctly, in Advanced BIOS Features, you set the First Boot Device to UDMA66.
If that does not work, set it to SCSI.

Chas

by vas

I got it fixed. I can't install the HPT366 drivers, so I was looking at the motherboard and didn't notice that the cable was plugged into IDE 3, not IDE 2.

by vas

TheChas, That would work, exept that I can't install the drivers for Windows 2000 on my computer.
Whenever I do, when I reboot my computer the loading bar won't go past the second "o" in "Microsoft" when it boots up.
So then I have to re-install windows, and if I try to install the drivers before I install windows, the setup won't go past "Loading Windows 2000".

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