Re: Installing with two hard drives

The BIOS is not detecting the slave no matter how I set them[40 as master or
15 as master] it will not detect the slave.
"OracleFire" <royireson@royireson.org> wrote in message
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> Check the drive jumpers, one should be set for master and the other for
> slave. Also check the BIOS to make sure that it is detecting both drives.
>
> "Me2Ewe" <blawrence@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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>> Hey folks
>> I have an Asus P2B motherboard and I am trying to install XP Pro onto one
>> 15GB HD and there is another 40GB HD for 2003 server and backups and
>> stuff.
>> I cannot get it installed. As soon as I hook up two hard drives it wont
>> recognize the slave. I have installed it on both separately, but as soon
>> as I hook up the other HD I can't boot into XP it will not get past the
>> checking slave.
>> Any ideas. The COMES settings are both on auto LBA
>> Thanks for any help
>> Bruce
>>
>
>

Just for a test, you might try configuring the drives for
Cable Select (CS) and see if they will play together
that way.

mikey

"Me2Ewe" <blawrence@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> The BIOS is not detecting the slave no matter how I set them[40 as
master or
> 15 as master] it will not detect the slave.
> "OracleFire" <royireson@royireson.org> wrote in message
> news:eZE8$nFDGHA.2320@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Check the drive jumpers, one should be set for master and the other
for
> > slave. Also check the BIOS to make sure that it is detecting both
drives.
> >
> > "Me2Ewe" <blawrence@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> > news:O3LT52EDGHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >> Hey folks
> >> I have an Asus P2B motherboard and I am trying to install XP Pro
onto one
> >> 15GB HD and there is another 40GB HD for 2003 server and backups
and
> >> stuff.
> >> I cannot get it installed. As soon as I hook up two hard drives it
wont
> >> recognize the slave. I have installed it on both separately, but as
soon
> >> as I hook up the other HD I can't boot into XP it will not get past
the
> >> checking slave.
> >> Any ideas. The COMES settings are both on auto LBA
> >> Thanks for any help
> >> Bruce
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

Upgrade the BIOS?