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Asus P4T-E hardrive sensing problem
I am trying to transfer my harddrive into a newer motherboard. The drive is
a W.D. 200 gig drive. It was origionally installed in a Abit BH6-2 motherboard based system. I am trying to get it to work with a Asus P4T-E. When I try to boot it directly, it hangs during windows startup. I tried doing the Win 2000 pro "upgrade" process on the origional Abit board, then shutting down the power during the restart process and transferring the drive to the newer board. This also hangs during windows startup. Looking at the bios, the origional Abit board shows the H.D. settings as "auto 200GB 65535 16 0 65534 255". The Asus board shows "auto 1024 255 63 CHS capacity 8422 MB Max LBA capacity 200050 MB". If I switch it to manual LBA mode, it shows the same result. It seems to me that the cylinders, heads, settings should match the origional board, but they don't. I'd like to get this working without reformatting the drive, as there are files on it I'd rather not lose, and they are too large for me to copy to any other drive I have. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Bob |
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Apart from some Bios discrepancy, I can only suggest you D\load WD
harddrive tools, and do a test or two on the drive. I know XP can be finicky with pre used drives, but don`t know about 2000. ..J "Bob" wrote in message ... I am trying to transfer my harddrive into a newer motherboard. The drive is a W.D. 200 gig drive. It was origionally installed in a Abit BH6-2 motherboard based system. I am trying to get it to work with a Asus P4T-E. When I try to boot it directly, it hangs during windows startup. I tried doing the Win 2000 pro "upgrade" process on the origional Abit board, then shutting down the power during the restart process and transferring the drive to the newer board. This also hangs during windows startup. Looking at the bios, the origional Abit board shows the H.D. settings as "auto 200GB 65535 16 0 65534 255". The Asus board shows "auto 1024 255 63 CHS capacity 8422 MB Max LBA capacity 200050 MB". If I switch it to manual LBA mode, it shows the same result. It seems to me that the cylinders, heads, settings should match the origional board, but they don't. I'd like to get this working without reformatting the drive, as there are files on it I'd rather not lose, and they are too large for me to copy to any other drive I have. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Bob |
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Do you let the BIOS automatically pick the paramters for the drive?
What was the original operating system and file system for the drive in the original system? Shutting a system down after making some types of changes without restarting may have adverse affects. "Bob" wrote in message ... I am trying to transfer my harddrive into a newer motherboard. The drive is a W.D. 200 gig drive. It was origionally installed in a Abit BH6-2 motherboard based system. I am trying to get it to work with a Asus P4T-E. When I try to boot it directly, it hangs during windows startup. I tried doing the Win 2000 pro "upgrade" process on the origional Abit board, then shutting down the power during the restart process and transferring the drive to the newer board. This also hangs during windows startup. Looking at the bios, the origional Abit board shows the H.D. settings as "auto 200GB 65535 16 0 65534 255". The Asus board shows "auto 1024 255 63 CHS capacity 8422 MB Max LBA capacity 200050 MB". If I switch it to manual LBA mode, it shows the same result. It seems to me that the cylinders, heads, settings should match the origional board, but they don't. I'd like to get this working without reformatting the drive, as there are files on it I'd rather not lose, and they are too large for me to copy to any other drive I have. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Bob |
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