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I have purchased a new 250 gig drive and I am having problems putting it in my system...
1st IDE cable - (CS) WD HD, (CS) Maxtor HD (This new maxtor has been formated)
2st IDE cable - (Master) CD-Burner, (Slave) DVD-Burner
onboard SATA - 2 WD Raptors on RAID 0
The problem is I once I add the new Maxtor HD, it decides to **** up and not boot to windows I get a hall.dll error...::Shrug:: whats the deal here???!?!?!
450 ANTEC Powersupply
Anyone can help me out???
The only way to stop software piracy, is to make games SO cheap, it's not even worth burning. That might be a while..hehe
It's Hal.dll....and the raptors raid sata is holding the OS
The Maxtor IS hooked up to the slave connector on IDE cable
and in the bios it doesn't show up to boot from the raptors....it's usually listed as NONE in the MASTER or slave drive before...I put in the new drive, I believe that the bios has problems displaying the sata raid drives...so it puts none...before it worked this way...
now it's set as WD - Master Maxtor - Slave....although I do see the Sata raid configurations load up later..yet..I don't think they are booting from the sata raid's :-\
The only way to stop software piracy, is to make games SO cheap, it's not even worth burning. That might be a while..hehe
I was runnins a OS on a sata raptor and a IDE WD drive. In my bios I would pick which drive I wanted to boot from. to boot from the sata . It was listed as a scsi drive for boot. If I wanted the IDE I picked IDE instead of the scsi. In both conditions it was the third boot device. I have floppy 1st, CDrom 2nd then scsi 3rd or the IDE 3rd.
Dennis
Main rig-AMD AM3 Phenom II 965,Asus M478T-E, 4gb DDR3 1600 ram, Intel Series 320 SSD 120gig, Velociraptor 300 gig, WD Blk 1tb deep storage, Sata Cd & DVD drives
HomeServer-AMD 4600x2, Soltek 939 mb 2 gig Ram, 74 Gig Raptor, 500 gig WD Green storage
I like Dennis' reply. My setup is similar and I have an option in my BIOS to boot from a "bootable add-in card," which is where my RAID 1 resides.
Go ahead and give the Master and Slave designations on your primary IDE instead of CS. Sometimes CS doesn't work the way it should. This is probably more true if you're using an IDE cable that's longer than the approved 18-in. spec.
Do you copy CD's much? Like putting one in the DVD-RW and copying it to the CD-RW? If so, go with a Hard Drive-Master / Optical Drive-Slave setup on each IDE channel. Keep in mind that two devices on the same channel cannot both talk at the same time, so think about how you use your drives so you get the most data flow from one channel to the other. You may want to rethink your configuration.
