HD's Not Working

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AudioJack

I got 2 400 gig drives and when I boot up the bios sees them but the os
dosen't any ideas?
they are on and ATA controller card and the drivers are in the device
manager showing ok
it will also say boot disk failure insert system disk but when I unhook them
it boots up fine. TIA
 
New hd's?
They are jumpered correctly?
If your boot drive is a sata drive, check your mobo manual for any specific
instructions re using sata boot drive with ide data disks - possibly a boot
order config.
Once you've got over the 'boot failure' err msg the hd's have to be
partitioned / formated in Disk Management
 
AudioJack said:
I got 2 400 gig drives and when I boot up the bios sees them but the os
dosen't any ideas?
they are on and ATA controller card and the drivers are in the device
manager showing ok
it will also say boot disk failure insert system disk but when I unhook them
it boots up fine. TIA
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I'd suspect that they are not jumpered correctly.

HTH
-pk
 
BIOS tells you that the computer recognizes their presence, and that they
are essentially 'working'.. the drive jumpers determine whether an OS can
recognize them as two separate drives with different 'identities'..
 
It will boot fine without the new drives unhooked but when you hook them up
to the card it tells me boot disk failure insert boot disk
 
Have you checked the sequence of hard drives in the BIOS? If the first
drive listed is not the boot drive (but one of the other non-boot
drives), it will try to boot from that non-bootable drive. BIOS's may
differ, but in mine, the drive sequence is a separate parameter from
the boot sequence. Whichever drive I have as the first drive is the
one it will boot from.

The separate boot sequence parameter specifies the order in which it
looks for devices. Normally you would list a CD above the hard drive
because if you have a boot CD loaded, that is probably what you want to
boot from. If you don't have a CD in there, it will go to the next
device (hard drive for example and will use whichever is the first you
listed in your hard drive sequence, which should be your bootable
drive).

Hope this helps.
 
I have it listed to boot from the floppy-cd-hard drive and I don't see any
other listings for hard drives
 
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