New HDD on 8300 jumper settings need help

The jumpers for both drives should be placed where they were originally.

The (blue) SATA interface cable should be connected to the (blue) SATA 0 connector on the motherboard.

Boot to the system BIOS and press ALT+F to force drive detection at exit. Before pressing ESC to exit (and enter to save changes), check the 'boot devices' or 'boot order' in the BIOS. Your SATA (original 120gb) drive should be higher in the boot order than the IDE disk drive (if the new drive shows in the boot order at all). Otherwise, the system may not boot to Windows.

I'm not sure why you chose to mix SATA (your original HDD) and IDE (your new HDD) interfaces. WSZsr is right. You'd have generally better off by buying a 2nd SATA hard disk and simply connected it to the SATA 2 connect on the mb....

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Just a bit perplexed here atm - I ran SuperPi to 1M places on both my ageing Athlon XP2000 (1.6Ghz) and on my wifes' 2.6Ghz Celeron (Dell 2400) The old athlon...

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		New HDD on 8300 jumper settings need help The jumpers for both drives should be placed where they were originally. The (blue) SATA interface cable should be connected to the (blue) SATA 0 connector on the motherboard. Boot to the system BIOS and press ALT+F to force drive detection at exit. Before pressing ESC to exit (and enter to save changes), check the 'boot devices' or 'boot order' in the BIOS. Your SATA (original 120gb) drive should be higher in the boot order than the IDE disk drive (if the new drive shows in the boot order at all). Otherwise, the system may not boot to Windows. I'm not sure why you chose to mix SATA (your original HDD) and IDE (your new HDD) interfaces. WSZsr is right. You'd have generally better off by buying a 2nd SATA hard disk and simply connected it to the SATA 2 connect on the mb.... OT possibly Celeron benchmarks Just a bit perplexed here atm - I ran SuperPi to 1M places on both my ageing Athlon XP2000 (1.6Ghz) and on my wifes' 2.6Ghz Celeron (Dell 2400) The old athlon... Stew List \| Previous \| Next



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