[NBLUG/talk] Can't boot from Hard Drive

Eric Landerville eric at landerville.com
Wed Oct 24 10:09:02 PDT 2007


Dave,
By saying the following,

*SNIP*
The drive is listed as the secondary master.
*SNIP*

I would say that you have the IDE ribbon cables plugged into the, not 
wrong, but oppisite slots on the mother board. 
Normal motherboards can only handle 4 IDE drives and there are two buses 
for those drives, the primary and the secondary.  I would say that you 
have your hard drive plugged into the secondary connector on the 
motherboard.  Switch the CD and hard drive cables on the mother board 
and see what happens. 

Good luck,

Eric



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