Ide!?!?!?

eugene31 · 09-20-2002

in computer i have one ide cable with my cd burner and my dvd drive and on another i have my hard drive. Now i just got my new zip disk and when i try to connect it on along with my hard i get a "operating system not on disk" error but it still says it detects the hard drive. Then when i disconnect the zip drive everthing works agian.

JeStEr · 09-20-2002

this is happening because ur puter is trying to boot from the zip drive first and not ur hdd, place the hdd as master, and the zip as slave if u can.

doughboy · 09-20-2002

yeah, as jester said...your mobo probably thinks the zip is the main drive...

does the zip drive have any dips on it?? It must have something to tell it to act as a slave....

If not then try putting it on the same ribbon as the cd, and stick the dvd on the hd ribbon.

eugene31 · 09-20-2002

Does it matter which ide cables i use for which, like are there ide cables just for cd rom drives and just for hard drives?
or can you use any ide cable for any ide device (besides floppy).

rogueingreen · 09-20-2002

go into your bios and change the setting for booting up, find out what ide channel your hard drive is on and change the boot settings so that the bios tries to boot from the hard drive first,
it is possible to boot from a Zip drive first but as its very unlikely that you'll have your O/S on a Zip, don't bother doing that!

Mucking around with a BIOS is dangerous for your PC's health, don't do it unless you are sure of what you are doing.

JeStEr · 09-21-2002

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Originally posted by eugene31
Does it matter which ide cables i use for which, like are there ide cables just for cd rom drives and just for hard drives?
or can you use any ide cable for any ide device (besides floppy).

it dont matter m8 unless its ata133 which i doubt, use ur ide cable (any) for hdd and zippy drive, if all else fails put ur hdd on master and ur cdrom/writer on slave then use ur other ide for the zip.

**Zafiras** · 09-21-2002

as above but try playing with your bios... or if unsure on messing with your bios, keep your HDD in the same IDE plug, and switch n swap your other devices

C4era · 09-21-2002

Gah... zip drive... honest opinion seeing how the que was solved 5 messages ago, Stick to CD-R's and CD-RW's... if you gotta have something better then get a Jazz drive.. 1 GB as opposed to... what? 100 MB? or did it get pulled up to 350MB?

**Zafiras** · 09-21-2002

all said and done i agree he probably should have gone for a jazz drive or stuck with cdr/w but now has a piece of hardware in which no-one here would say stuff it and throw it away.