My computer seems to have some ghosts, so I thought I post the problem here and see if anyone could help out.
I have one SATA HDD and an IDE DVD drive in the computer. To have a backup of some of hte files on the HDD, I bought a second internal hard drive (SATA II); I figured I'd put it in, format it, copy files, and be done.
However, I've put the HDD on both the other SATA port on the motherboard and the SATA II. In both cases, it shows up fine in the BIOS, but doesn't register as a drive in Windows. In fact, Windows shows both a CD drive and a DVD drive even though there is no CD drive.
I tried uninstalling the primary HDD and just putting in the new drive and a bootable WinXP disk in the DVD drive and I get a BSOD error partway through the install. (The same error happened with two different XP install disks.)
Any thoughts? Is this computer just cursed?
I have one SATA HDD and an IDE DVD drive in the computer. To have a backup of some of hte files on the HDD, I bought a second internal hard drive (SATA II); I figured I'd put it in, format it, copy files, and be done.
However, I've put the HDD on both the other SATA port on the motherboard and the SATA II. In both cases, it shows up fine in the BIOS, but doesn't register as a drive in Windows. In fact, Windows shows both a CD drive and a DVD drive even though there is no CD drive.
I tried uninstalling the primary HDD and just putting in the new drive and a bootable WinXP disk in the DVD drive and I get a BSOD error partway through the install. (The same error happened with two different XP install disks.)
Any thoughts? Is this computer just cursed?
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