Ok, both drives are jumpered to CS, right? Connect your boot drive to the end connector, start up and go into system setup and set it to Auto. After you restart and go back into setup, the correct drive should appear. Power off, connect the new drive and again, go into setup and set this device to Auto. Restart and check setup again to see if it's properly detected.
To answer your PM, I suggest you leave the card out for now. After clearing the NVRAM, install just your boot drive, load Windows and make sure everything is working. Then install your new drive on the middle connector of the primary IDE cable (CS jumper, slave position). If the new drive is properly recognized by system setup (although you may not see 250 GB), then remove it, install the card and drivers and reinstall it on the controller card.
Osprey I followed your directions and all was fine the computer setup showed the 250G with the auto setting. After I installed the card,drivers and attached the 250 to the ide cable of the card (end of cable not the gray connector) . The computer now doesn't recognize the harddrive when computer is turned on it shows HD 1 not detected then it shows the card with 232G connected to it. But as far as I can tell the computer doesn't see it didn't assign it a letter and the Maxblast 3 cannot partition the new drive saying it only detects a drive that boots windows and cannot partition it. Hope I am explaining it correct. I think were on the right track any ideas?
You've got to tell me what is being reported where. The 232 GB is correct for that drive (due to them cheatin' hard drive manufacturers' way of advertising inflated drive sizes).
You'll want to go back into setup and make sure where you originally plugged the drive in now reads None. Always go back into setup every time you change any IDE arrangement and allow the system to read what's where, and reset the configuration.
You may still need to partition and format the drive. The Maxblast software can do this, I think you can boot from their floppy, or you can do it using your emergency boot disk.
Just for your info I reconnected the gray ide connector from the MB cable left the card installed and now the bios sees the 250G when set to auto but the Maxtor CD cant partition the drive it says set bios to auto which it already is set .
In the bios now with both HD connected to the MB the second drive reads 250 on the auto setting. when the card info appears while booting up it reads no bios and no longer shows the 232 gb since the card is not connected. I know the new HD is not partitioned cause I cant get that far when the 250 is connected to the card the card picks up the 232 but the system only sees the original drive. And when I connect it along with the MB it tells me I must set the bios to auto and they already are. Does that help any?
It is a Maxtor SATA/150 + Ultra ATA/133 Combo PCI Card P/N 20237900. I think I might have got it working correctly I went into bios and shut off the second drive and put the 250 back on the card . I booted with the maxblast floppy and CD I was able to read the 80g on the motherboard along with my cd player and click on the ata card which had the 250 listed I partitioned it and now after rebooting I hit my computer and a new drive is listed showing 232 available. How can I test that is is working can I drag and drop a file to it?
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I suggest removing the controller card and clearing the NVRAM before doing anytihng else. Disconnect all drives and follow these instructions:
http://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document.asp?DN=1023538
Ok, both drives are jumpered to CS, right? Connect your boot drive to the end connector, start up and go into system setup and set it to Auto. After you restart and go back into setup, the correct drive should appear. Power off, connect the new drive and again, go into setup and set this device to Auto. Restart and check setup again to see if it's properly detected.
Post back if this works.
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Ok, I'll check back. Or you can PM me when you get some results.
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You've got to tell me what is being reported where. The 232 GB is correct for that drive (due to them cheatin' hard drive manufacturers' way of advertising inflated drive sizes).
You'll want to go back into setup and make sure where you originally plugged the drive in now reads None. Always go back into setup every time you change any IDE arrangement and allow the system to read what's where, and reset the configuration.
You may still need to partition and format the drive. The Maxblast software can do this, I think you can boot from their floppy, or you can do it using your emergency boot disk.
What is the make/model of your controller card?
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Ok, what is the card? Make and model.
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Cool!! Making progress!!
Use Windows Explorer, if you don't already. Or open an application and try saving a file to it.