I tried hooking up a 60 gig IDE hard drive to my ASUS A8N5X motherboard and its not detecting it.
The computer is already set up with windows Xp and windows 98 on 2 seperate Sata2 hard drives.
The IDE hard drive is compatible with the motherboard from what I know, and Ive tired installing it with several different jumper positions. Although Id prefer to have it on as a secondary slave drive. All I want to do is reformat the drive so I can give it to a friend.
Things Ive tried.....
I tried putting it in a different IDE port by removing the DVD burner.
I tried removing the Sata2 hard drives and installing the IDE drive as a master.
I tried all 3 different jumper positions on the IDE drive.
Yet every time I boot the computer up the drive is not detected. If you need more details about the computer just let me know. I don't know if there is an operating system on the IDE drive but I don't think there is. I also have no drivers for the IDE drive but I figured I didn't need drivers. Ive never tried hooking an IDE drive to a computer already using SATA technology.
Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.