If the 770 doesn't recognize the hard drive at boot time and is giving
you the 'insert bootable disk' graphic, then drivers have absolutely
nothing to do with the problem. You either have a disk that has failed
somehow or you don't have things set up correctly.
Go back though the steps of what you did to 'try the 10GB drive'. In
fact, post them to the list. Make sure that everything you did to try
that has been reversed to get back to the 4GB drive. Did you assemble
the drive caddy correctly with the 4GB drive? Is the drive in the right
spot (main HDD bay)? Is the drive connected solidly (caddy connector to
drive & caddy inserted into bay tightly). Did you change anything in
the BIOS? Does the boot order still show HDD1 (or main bay HDD) as the
first item in the boot order? Do you have any other drives installed
(2nd HDD in UltraBay, CD-ROM, floppy)? Remove those physically and from
the boot order. Also, boot into the BIOS with the drive in the main bay
and run system diagnostics. Does it see the HDD then?
Also - did you do anything to the drive with any partitioning or cloning
utilities? Did you 'fdisk' anything? Perhaps you thought you were
fdisking the 10GB drive an accidentally did something to the 4GB drive?
If I'm misunderstanding you and you are actually able to boot into
Windows but are having some other problem then please clarify.
Hope this helps!
Rob
bm_haus@web.de wrote:
> Thanks, Rob, Sorry but it doesn't work -
> must be sth. different.
> could it be the driver for the PCI IDE Controller?
> I have really difficulties to use it unter windows.
> It is working alright, but when I try to use the dock a friend
> gave me with his old 600 I’m desperate: No IDE devices and
> IDE or PCI cards work (USB and SCSI OK) so what do I do
> wrong? – In the windows safe mode, I can configure the right
> IRq etc. but it is not stable, After the next boot - when it finds
> the HDD, configuration is lost again, the standard driver is
> installed
> – so what is this, and can it be the root of the boot problem?
> Thanks
> Bernadette
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