New Motherboard - Old HDDs NF8

I was using an AN7 motherboard with two ATA hard drives and two serial
ATA hard drives. Booting off one serial ATA HD. Took the noisy fan
off the chipset, worked okay until a defrag then fried the chipset.

Purchased and installed a new NF8-V2 hoping I would be able to use the
old serial ATA hard drive to boot. It was not to be. I installed a
new ATA hard drive (not serial) and got up and running.

Now I am to the point of a new motherboard, new cpu and new ATA hard
drive all running okay. But I want the files on the old hard drives.

Tried to hook up the old serial ATA HDs. The BIOS sees them. Windows
device manager knows they are there. Can't see the old serial ATA
drives in file explorer.

Tried hooking up the old ATA (not serial) drives to the new board.
Once they are hooked up the new NF8 board will not even display the
splash screen. Just beeps once and shuts down.

I have tried every combination of the old hard drives, including one
drive at a time, and the new hard drive. Went over all the settings
in BIOS carefully. I am guessing I have something wrong in the BIOS
to see or boot up with the old hard drives connected and the operating
system on the new HD.

I can get the system booted with the two serial ATA hard drives hooked
up but cant see the files on them. I can't even get booted up with
the old ATA (not serial) drives hooked up.

Any suggestions on how to proceed? I don't want to throw 2 years
worth of work on the old hard drives away.

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:23:26 -0500, kline
had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:


I was using an AN7 motherboard with two ATA hard drives and two serial
ATA hard drives. Booting off one serial ATA HD. Took the noisy fan
off the chipset, worked okay until a defrag then fried the chipset.

Purchased and installed a new NF8-V2 hoping I would be able to use the
old serial ATA hard drive to boot. It was not to be. I installed a
new ATA hard drive (not serial) and got up and running.

Now I am to the point of a new motherboard, new cpu and new ATA hard
drive all running okay. But I want the files on the old hard drives.

Tried to hook up the old serial ATA HDs. The BIOS sees them. Windows
device manager knows they are there. Can't see the old serial ATA
drives in file explorer.

Go into drive manager and assign drive letters to them.


Tried hooking up the old ATA (not serial) drives to the new board.
Once they are hooked up the new NF8 board will not even display the
splash screen. Just beeps once and shuts down.


Sounds like a power supply problem.

I have tried every combination of the old hard drives, including one
drive at a time, and the new hard drive. Went over all the settings
in BIOS carefully. I am guessing I have something wrong in the BIOS
to see or boot up with the old hard drives connected and the operating
system on the new HD.

I can get the system booted with the two serial ATA hard drives hooked
up but cant see the files on them. I can't even get booted up with
the old ATA (not serial) drives hooked up.

Any suggestions on how to proceed? I don't want to throw 2 years
worth of work on the old hard drives away.

They do make USB to SATA adapters. For example:
http://www.surpluscomputers.com/stor...&item=CRD10788

PATA(IDE) version:
http://www.surpluscomputers.com/stor...&item=CRD10181

Stephen
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kline wrote:
I was using an AN7 motherboard with two ATA hard drives and two serial
ATA hard drives. Booting off one serial ATA HD. Took the noisy fan
off the chipset, worked okay until a defrag then fried the chipset.

Purchased and installed a new NF8-V2 hoping I would be able to use the
old serial ATA hard drive to boot. It was not to be. I installed a
new ATA hard drive (not serial) and got up and running.

Now I am to the point of a new motherboard, new cpu and new ATA hard
drive all running okay. But I want the files on the old hard drives.

Tried to hook up the old serial ATA HDs. The BIOS sees them. Windows
device manager knows they are there. Can't see the old serial ATA
drives in file explorer.

Tried hooking up the old ATA (not serial) drives to the new board.
Once they are hooked up the new NF8 board will not even display the
splash screen. Just beeps once and shuts down.

I have tried every combination of the old hard drives, including one
drive at a time, and the new hard drive. Went over all the settings
in BIOS carefully. I am guessing I have something wrong in the BIOS
to see or boot up with the old hard drives connected and the operating
system on the new HD.

I can get the system booted with the two serial ATA hard drives hooked
up but cant see the files on them. I can't even get booted up with
the old ATA (not serial) drives hooked up.

Any suggestions on how to proceed? I don't want to throw 2 years
worth of work on the old hard drives away.

Assuming you are running XP..go to the control panel, administrative tools,
computer management, disk management, storage, disk management local and
then assign a drive number to the disk and make it active (if needed).

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