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08-10-2004, 03:00 PM

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No 80 IDE conductor cable installed //bootmenu's?

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I reveive this (read title)message every time I boot.
Is it possible that my IDE cable is connected backwards???
Is there a front side or doesn't it mater how they must be connected?

Also,
I had win XP pro, then I installed winXP home on my new hd (200gb).
When I boot, I get the bootmenu to choose XPhome or XpPro.
Pro works fine, but the new home edition gives an error (something about a wrong specified partition)
I press enter-- it reboots-- I do just the same thing and ...
the home ed. works fine...

help anyone??

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08-10-2004, 05:35 PM	#2
tubaman Just push the damn button Join Date: May 2004 Location: Kansas Posts: 961/0.58 Threads: 2 Friends Network	Re: No 80 IDE conductor cable installed //bootmenu's? IDE cables have to go a certian way. They have a notch on one side. If it's a dual fifo cable, make sure the doubled end is connected to the drives. Possible a bad cable? Don't know about XP, though, haven't had a chance to use it. Still stuck on win98

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08-11-2004, 11:59 AM	#3
dizza whore Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Huntington Beach, CA Posts: 70/0.04 Threads: 0 Friends Network	Re: No 80 IDE conductor cable installed //bootmenu's? You will sometimes get that error if you are using a 40 pin cable on a drive that requires a 80 pin cable. As for the XP problem, you can drop to DOS and type "bootcfg /?", it will show how the boot configuration is right now, and you might need to edit something in there to make it work 100%. BECAREFUL though, if you make the wrong edit, you might need to boot from a floppy and fix it. David

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08-12-2004, 05:23 PM	#4
thewalrus whore Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Boston Posts: 177/0.10 Threads: 0 Friends Network	Re: No 80 IDE conductor cable installed //bootmenu's? Do you have XP Pro and Home installed on the same 200 gb drive or are they two different Hard Drives? It sounds like you are using a 40 pin IDE cable on your new 200 GB which requires a 80 pin cable. If the cable was reversed then the system would not detect the drive.

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08-12-2004, 06:38 PM	#5
dizza whore Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Huntington Beach, CA Posts: 70/0.04 Threads: 0 Friends Network	Re: No 80 IDE conductor cable installed //bootmenu's? Does anyone read the replies before they post?? David

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08-13-2004, 02:04 PM	#6
thinking whore Join Date: May 2004 Location: streets Posts: 55/0.03 Threads: 0 Friends Network	Re: No 80 IDE conductor cable installed //bootmenu's? I've got a 60gb HD for Xp home and the 200gb HD for the pro edition. I've got one 40 ide cable and one 80 ide cable... i've changed the cables (have also 2 cd drives) (1 hd +1 cd = 1 ide cable), reversed them then I noticed that the distance between my 200gb hd and my cd drive was too long to reverse that cable... SO I think I've to get a new (longer) 80 ide cable... about the bootcfg... I can't run it in dos... I can edit my boot via system... But there is Nothing wrong... thanx 4 the help m8s

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08-13-2004, 05:06 PM	#7
thewalrus whore Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Boston Posts: 177/0.10 Threads: 0 Friends Network	Re: No 80 IDE conductor cable installed //bootmenu's? Well, if you can put the two HDs, 60GB and 200GB, on the same primary IDE controller with the 80 pin IDE cable. then use the 40 pin and put the two CDs on the secondary IDE controller.

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08-13-2004, 07:08 PM	#8
dizza whore Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Huntington Beach, CA Posts: 70/0.04 Threads: 0 Friends Network	Re: No 80 IDE conductor cable installed //bootmenu's? yep, thats the best way to do it. Your hard drives should be on a seperate channel from the cdroms. Get better performance that way. David

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08-15-2004, 12:25 AM	#9
thinking whore Join Date: May 2004 Location: streets Posts: 55/0.03 Threads: 0 Friends Network	Re: No 80 IDE conductor cable installed //bootmenu's? that I can do... I used to have it that way... but when I wanted to copy cd's on the fly, the proggie I used said I had to make sure to use different Ide's for the cd drives... so I thought that would be the best... guess not then thx again

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08-15-2004, 12:49 AM	#10
dizza whore Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Huntington Beach, CA Posts: 70/0.04 Threads: 0 Friends Network	Re: No 80 IDE conductor cable installed //bootmenu's? Well, if the drives are extremely fast, then it might make a difference having them on seperate channels. I have a 8x DVDR/W and a 52x CDrom, and I've never had a problem with them being on the same channel. David

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08-15-2004, 05:36 AM	#11
thinking whore Join Date: May 2004 Location: streets Posts: 55/0.03 Threads: 0 Friends Network	Re: No 80 IDE conductor cable installed //bootmenu's? I've changed it now and I didn't get any error.... booted in one time thanks!! really really thanks

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08-15-2004, 01:46 PM	#12
dizza whore Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Huntington Beach, CA Posts: 70/0.04 Threads: 0 Friends Network	Re: No 80 IDE conductor cable installed //bootmenu's? Sweet. You're very welcome. David

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08-20-2004, 10:37 AM	#13
DERRICK70 whore Join Date: May 2004 Location: DETROIT Posts: 212/0.13 Threads: 0 Friends Network	Re: No 80 IDE conductor cable installed //bootmenu's? man i love building computers even when you get the occ endless boot

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09-01-2004, 01:42 AM	#14
JT55 whore Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: arizona Posts: 28/0.02 Threads: 0 Friends Network	Re: No 80 IDE conductor cable installed //bootmenu's? hmmm....

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