re: PLEASE HELP! 2nd hard drive with winME
Monday, July 30, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6157 messages posted)
Windows didn't install a driver for the IDE controller on the motherboard or it's
having a problem of some type. It is probably running in a generic PIO mode, instead
of the faster DMA mode. If you don't have a CD or floppy with the motherboard drivers
on them, you can try the manufacturers website for the motherboard, or the manufacturer
of the machine. If you know the chipset provider on the motherboard, you can sometimes
find drivers on their site also. Until that is updated/corrected, you may not be
able to see all of the drives and/or it will be as slow as molasses (lots of HDD
activity for a simple task etc)..
On Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 8:36 pm, chin wrote:
>Hi, I had a small master hd (7 gigs) on which winMe was loaded, and a larger slave
>(60 gigs) on which my docs were. after getting the "windows protection error" i
>decided to reload windows. with a winMe setup disk, i reformatted the master drive
>and reinstalled winME on it. unfortunately now the slave is not being recognized
>by windows. it simply doesn't show up ..(i'm not sure if DOS does either). in
device
>manager, "GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE 47" is flagged under disk drives, and there is a
>question mark for "PRIMARY IDE CONTROLLER (DUAL FIFO)" under hard disk controllers.
>
>both the master and slave are recognized in bios, and show up. do i need a driver
>or something? please help! thanks
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