harddrive issue

[Richenstony]

hey guys ive got a issue with a maxtor 160gb hardrive now its running ok in my computer but....i have them both connected my old and my new hardive and there not  sata so there takening up ribbion ports which i need for my internal dvd drive as ive scrapped my external.....my issue is when i go to boot windows x-p onto the new hardrive its saying everything is running and the procces is complete (in bios) then it just restarts the same process over and over again it wont install x-p at all , so i tryed doing this on my old hardive no issues at all ran normally anyone got any advance ive tryed changeing the value settings in bios nofing seems to work...i formatted both drives 13 times fast and slow still nofing on my maxtor 160gbs....

[Richenstony]

any help anyone 

[simshi993052]

Hi just wondering have you tried setting it as master and installing?
Simshi

[Richenstony]

yep done that to same thing happens.......

[simshi993052]

Hmm sorry mate i am a little puzzeled now bare with me
Simshi

[patio]

The original post is confusing...list what HDD's you are speaking of , how they are cabled and jumpered and more info on the system...i.e. does it have only one IDE channel ? ?

[Richenstony]

Ok basically the there are 2 ribbon ports on the mobo , i have my main hard drive plugged the master socket and the other is on slave.......... but there linked up together not only on the mobo but on the ribbon cables them selfs , i have tried swapping them all round master to slave slave to master then i tried installing x-p on the hard drive it still didn't want to install windows x-p , so like i said before i tried doing the same thing on my old 60gb hard drive and i had no issues , but when i try to do it on the other hard drive i get the same blue screen saying its checking my hardware configuration , then it runs the installation process all over again .......

[simshi993052]

Hi Richenstony just another thought did you try installing it with just the new Hdd connected?

[Richenstony]

I cant do that because my external dvd-drive wont work and like i said before all the ports have been taken up on my mobo with my internal hard-drives my external wont work because its usb.....and usb isn't active until windows starts and i wont have the options when booting etc..

[simshi993052]

do you not have an internal rom?
you can plug your hdd and 1 rom on the same cableas M & S
can hurt can it
simshi

[Richenstony]

Heres a picture

[simshi993052]

Your ide slots will support to components on each slot, do you not have a ribbon with 2 connectors on it?

[Richenstony]

Ive got like 600 ribbons lmao!! it would take ages to look through them all but i most likely do.....let me see if i get what your saying

Ok at the moment my internal dvd-drive is connected , but its not connected into the ports because there isn't one available , so are you saying link the dvds separate ribbon to one of others without connecting it , as in a cross them together.

sorry if im confusing you im a little there myself , its hard to explain how its all connected ...

[Richenstony]

I actually tried connecting a sata hard drive but it didn't work for some reason and i was also told it wasn't compatible whether thats a load of rubbish i don't know , i know it says sata on there but i was told by some computer guy that it would work well.........but he couldnt even get my hardrives working so to *censored* with him....... im also thinking about connecting 2 more sata hard drives , i want to know whether thi s will slow my system down or not it will be 2 more 160gbs.... a grand total of 520gbs..

[simshi993052]

bare with me gonna send you a picture