Vic Mackey Posted January 30, 2005 Posted January 30, 2005 I have a WD Raptor 74GB hard drive and a pioneer dvd +/- RW drive. both components are on the primary IDE channel according to device manager info. sometimes when i boot it wont detect the drives. i have to restart 4 or 5 times for it to detect them both. other times they are found immediately. is the sata hard drive supposed to be on primary ide channel? i have a MSI K7N2 Delta2 mobo. once im into winxp there are no problems whatsoever. i dont get any errors at all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazwegion Posted February 3, 2005 Posted February 3, 2005 Your SATA wouldn't possibly be on your IDE primary controller channel (different connector) From what info you've volunteered, it sounds like both the your SATA drive & the DVD-RW are set to primary (boot sequence), try setting your optical drive to second billing (secondary boot) and see how you get on, also to save on confusion... I use the secondary IDE interface on my m/board for the optical drives, as my board didn't appear to like it when I initially placed them in the primary IDE interface, whilst using a my SATA drive Worth a shot @ least Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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