Master vs Cable Select?

[Puter Moron]

Interesting.....so is it possible that with the HDD being the only device connected to the IDE cable and being jumpered as cable select (where it should not have been jumpered at all) may have confused the system and thus the strange way I had to reload XP?  Perhaps the HDD is not on its way out?

Another interesting (at least to me) thing I found while looking at new HDD's is that some of the SATA's do not have a Molex (legacy) power jack on them but instead a SATA style power connector.  For people who purchase one of these HDD's would be in for a suprise if they do not have any SATA power connectors on their PSU.  I assume the are adapters that convert the Molex to the SATA style power connector?!?

[dahlarbear]

I also tried running checkdisk from the recovery console and when it was done it gave a message to the effect that it had finished and did not display any kind of results.

1.  You may use Microsoft's "event viewer" to locate result of previous chkdsk execution.  See below to access. 

Open Start, Run, type (without quotes) 'eventvwr.msc' and click OK. Select the Application report and examine all the events with the 'Winlogon' source.

Posted by "Daniel Martín" in thread CHKDSK produce a Log ?

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Interesting.....so is it possible that with the HDD being the only device connected to the IDE cable and being jumpered as cable select (where it should not have been jumpered at all) may have confused the system and thus the strange way I had to reload XP?

2.  I don't know.  I would have thought setting hard drive "jumper" to "Single" would have been the "safe" bet given all the caveats necessary for cable select to work properly.  Again see http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/howto_connect_ide_hd.html.

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I assume the are adapters that convert the Molex to the SATA style power connector?!?

3.  Yes there are.

[Puter Moron]

While looking at new HDD's it appears the SATA's have a transfer rate of 300MB/second and my Mboard has a SATA transfer rate of 150MB/second.  It this going to be an issue?  Or will the new HDD transfer at the rate of the Mboard?

[Geek-9pm]

You can go ahead and buy the new drive. These new technologies are made to be backwards compatible inside of this class. If not, there would be some kind of warning or caution that would be published. Case in point, when they went to the newer type of AGP cards they had to give a warning that there was a voltage problem with the older AGP slots. Of course, that had nothing to do with hard drives. The three major categories of hard drives are the original parallel interface, the new serial interface, and a type of interface that we call the SCSI.

[patio]

It will operate at the board's speed...