Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Click here to start participating now! Also, check out the New User Guide.
Primary ide not detected
Name: mj4404 Date: January 24, 2006 at 01:11:18 Pacific OS: xp pro CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
Hi
I have a user who bought a 80 gig hard drive and he split it into 3 partitions which worked fine. Then he made a 4th and after doing this he now gets primary ide not detected , secondary ide not detected. Any ideas ?
Name: StuartS Date: January 24, 2006 at 01:29:17 Pacific
Reply:
Repartitioning a drive should not cause this problem.
Primary ide not detected indicates a hardware problem. Partitioning is purely a software function.
I suspect that there is something the user is not telling you. Did they take the cover of the computer for any reason? Something that is not necessary to re-partition a hard disk.
Stuart
0
Response Number 2
Name: Zenith Date: January 24, 2006 at 14:59:32 Pacific
Reply:
The question is:
How exactly did he go about adding the 4th partition??
WILL POST FOR FOOD.
0
Response Number 3
Name: mj4404 Date: January 25, 2006 at 02:55:56 Pacific
Reply:
Hi
He used partition magic.
0
Response Number 4
Name: StuartS Date: January 25, 2006 at 02:59:18 Pacific
Reply:
But what else did he do? Even if he made a complete hash of it and deleted every partition on the disk, the BIOS would still detect the drive.
Stuart
0
Response Number 5
Name: dave7777 Date: January 26, 2006 at 14:43:15 Pacific
Reply:
i now have his pc and i removed his slave and the pc picked up his hard drive with the partition but then hangs after the detection at the screen after, i will have a proper look over weekend.
cheers
0
Response Number 6
Name: dave7777 Date: January 26, 2006 at 14:52:16 Pacific
Reply:
forgot to mention, when i first looked at it bios picked up neiher drive, just cdrom and dvdrom.
0
Response Number 7
Name: mj4404 Date: January 31, 2006 at 06:45:40 Pacific
Reply:
ok I have tried various jumper/cable combinations, to no avail. If I remove the slace disk which is a 20gb the pc will pick up the 80gb at detection but when it goes to the next screen (system configuration) it then hangs on primary master detection. I have put the 80gb disk in my own machine, removed partitions and formatted but still does the same. Do you think it is needing a bios upgrade ?
Summary: No masters or slaves detected anymore!! I was trying to install a second CD-Rom but I didn't have all the right cables so I plugged everything back in as it was. Now my primary master, primary slave,...
Summary: I was getting "invalid FAT32" messages on boot and black screens. I took my data off the drive, and did FDISK to take off and make a new partition with a thought that it would fix the problem. Now on ...
Summary: Hello so my computer hasn't been working for a while now.....windows xp x64 os...every time i boot, it gets to the loading screen, and then after that turns black, doesnt get to the login screen...and...
0 
CD rom wont open - lights...
