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Vista: starting from a blank HD
marty_0001
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Thanks to everyone who answered my last question. The PS2 keyboard did the trick 
The quest continues: long story short, my crack version of XP failed to install, and rather than muck around trying to get a new copy, fix the now-messed-up hard drive, etc., I took this as a sign to upgrade and go legit.
So now I've got a fresh (and bigger) hard drive and Windows vista. I thought this should be pretty straight-forward to install; just unplug the old one, slot in the new one, plug it in and chuck in the disc. But no! It's not recognising the new drive at all.
A few points:
1. It's an IDE drive
2. The DVD ROM is the Master (black connector), and the HD is the Slave (grey). This was the setup I had on the old drive. I'm pretty sure they're plugged in as far as they should go, short of really forcing them to see if they'll go further.
3. The... thingy... is set to Cable Select, per the instructions.
4. I've followed the instructions printed on the drive to use Auto detect under BIOS, and selected LDA. Still no detection though.
Putting the Vista disc in does nothing, it just keeps asking for it.
Thanks again. Sorry if I'm late replying to these things as I can only get on here while at work.
The quest continues: long story short, my crack version of XP failed to install, and rather than muck around trying to get a new copy, fix the now-messed-up hard drive, etc., I took this as a sign to upgrade and go legit.
So now I've got a fresh (and bigger) hard drive and Windows vista. I thought this should be pretty straight-forward to install; just unplug the old one, slot in the new one, plug it in and chuck in the disc. But no! It's not recognising the new drive at all.
A few points:
1. It's an IDE drive
2. The DVD ROM is the Master (black connector), and the HD is the Slave (grey). This was the setup I had on the old drive. I'm pretty sure they're plugged in as far as they should go, short of really forcing them to see if they'll go further.
3. The... thingy... is set to Cable Select, per the instructions.
4. I've followed the instructions printed on the drive to use Auto detect under BIOS, and selected LDA. Still no detection though.
Putting the Vista disc in does nothing, it just keeps asking for it.
Thanks again. Sorry if I'm late replying to these things as I can only get on here while at work.
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Because it really sucks for computer performance if they're on the same one.
Ideally you won't share the same IDE connection, but... make the HDD the master if you do, black connector / end of cable.
Just to make sure, you aren't even seeing the drives listed during BIOS startup? o_O
IDE Master [None]
IDE Slave [None]
IDE Master slot 1 [None]
... and it repeats a few times with different slots, None's all the way through.
I think there are other such cables looping around in there, maybe a separate one is going to the A drive. I really don't know much about this stuff, I've always had someone who's hardware-savvy build my PC's.
Try either:
1. Put both the HDD and DVD Drive to cable select with the jumpers. It shouldn't matter what order they are plugged in.
2. Set HDD to master with the jumper, set DVD to slave. Plug HDD on the end of IDE cable, DVD in middle. If that doesn't work, switch jumpers and places.
3. Set them both to cable select, or master, and put each one on their own IDE.
Finally, when you are in your BIOS after each time, go to where it says [None] and hit enter, sometimes it won't find the drive upon boot, but by selecting auto select or hitting enter on those IDE listings, it will pick it up.