Adding 2nd HD
Hi, I'm trying to help my sister who has a new Dell Inspiron 2200 with some strange behavior. I should first say that she's had McAfee Firewall Anti-Virus installed since...
Hi All, 5000 but am any ideas
Let's start with the obvious, because we all do it and it takes hours or days to find.
Are you sure your boot drive is in the actual SATA port 1? If it's plugged into SATA port 2, she'll probably still boot with nothing else there. If something else is there, you may get just what you're getting.
Most SATA ports on motherboards are very poorly marked and number 1 is not usually where you'd expect it. Check it.
If your mobo has built in RAID, did you install the drivers? This also may be an issue with multiple drives plugged into it; using RAID or not. I would suspect a Sil 4 port RAID chip would need it's RAID drivers to work properly with four drives plugged into it.
As far as I know, the RAID drivers must be installed on the Windows XP original install for a proper boot. There are ways around this, but I've never found one that works.
Also, I almost forgot; if these are Western Digital Sata's, they have to be jumpered as "SATA 150 Only." They won't register otherwise. Again, VERY poorly marked.
That one threw me on my last build, because they're the only SATA drives I'm "NOW" aware of that need a jumper for anything. That only took four hours to figure out...
Best of luck