Hard drive issue

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I have ghosted an old drive to a new 160 GB Seagate HD. The Ghost went fine.
I then started up Windows on the New Drive and was greeted by the found new
hardware for the new drive. I waited and the Found New hardware wizard came
up.. I click next and told it to find the drivers. After some time it failed.
so I hit Finish at the end of the wizard and the drive installed and says it
is working properly. EVEN though it said it could not find the drivers and
failed install. So I rebooted and I got the same message that it found the
drive again. So basically it is not finishing the install of the drive.

A. I upgraded the firmware of the pc.
B. I upgraded the ATA controller drivers.
C. This is a DELL Machine.
D. I know that hard drives do not need drivers, windows handles that.
E. The old drive works fine and is in Device manager. Just too small.

Any clue??? Any KB's you know about. Any problems with Barrcuda 160gb's and
DELL you know about... Thanks in advance!
 
Is this a IDE or SATA Hard Drive? Are you using WinXP with SP2? Bios
Update? Does WinXP load up Ok on the
new drive except for the New Hardware Wizard?
 
Have you checked carefully to see whether the "Found new hardware"
message is referring to your new arrangement or your previous one?

I changed my system from a built in video card to an add on graphics
card. The system now detects the redundant card as new hardware. I have
not presently found out how to stop this message but it has become
tiresome having to cancel these pointless messages.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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Disable the onboard in the bios maybe?

Gerry said:
Have you checked carefully to see whether the "Found new hardware" message
is referring to your new arrangement or your previous one?

I changed my system from a built in video card to an add on graphics card.
The system now detects the redundant card as new hardware. I have not
presently found out how to stop this message but it has become tiresome
having to cancel these pointless messages.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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DL

Although I have looked in the BIOS many times it it is not something I
fully understand.

The Video Controller triggering the message is located in PCI3 slot.
PCI3 is set to Auto and contains references to a Display Controller and
a USB 1.1 Host Controller. In the Motherboard Manual it says about Auto
"Auto Assign IRQ to PCI2 (Default Value). What does this mean? I cannot
see how to Disable the Display Controller. Am I at the correct location
or should I be looking elsewhere?

The reference to PCI Slot 3 has me also puzzled. I have PCI slots 1 and
2, a GEAR slot and a PCI Express slot.

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Regards.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
Gerry, I think you should be looking elseware in the Bios. Should be
something simple like Onboard Video enable or
disable.
 
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