I have a question that I hope someone can help me with. My wife and I have 3 computers (2 desktop and 1 laptop) and I want to take her desktop down and integrate it with mine. All I am looking to do is remove her HDD from her tower and install it in mine.
Before I get to my issue here is my towers specs. ( I built this pc like 4 years ago so it’s kinda outdated)
ASUS K8V Deluxe MB
AMD Athlon 64 3000 processor
2.5 gigs ddr 3200
1- WD 160 gig 7500 rpm IDE HDD
Radeon 9600 Pro
Windows XP Professional
The rest is probably irrelevant
Her computer was a pc she bought from HP and the HDD that it came with was a 250gig SATA. I took out her HDD and installed it into my tower. My MB is RAID complient but I don’t use it so I have tried plugging her HDD into the SATA primary and then tried the secondary and not the Pri/Sec underneath the Raid plugin.
I loaded my bios and I do not have the option of choosing SCSI or adding her HDD into the boot sequence and I don’t think I can dual boot the two HDD like you could a multiple partition on one hard drive or am I wrong?
So in my bios under Boot and Boot Priority I have my IDE HDD then one of my IDE DVD drives and third is disabled.
Under Hard Disk Drives I finally have my bios recognizing that there is a SATA HDD installed and listed as the 2nd drive.
I believe I have tried everything that I know and can not get it to operate, even tried pulling up the Boot Selection pop up and selecting her HDD and all it does is tell me that windows failed to initialize last time and it boots my HDD instead.
I apologize for the long post but I am trying to be as descriptive as I can. Any help is greatly appreciated.
