Conflict between hard disk and CD-ROM on GA-K8NF-9

Did you say that you format hard drive with NTFS??? it dont work
great - usual begin with FAT32 at the begin and then when you go into
Windows XP blue screen setup and then convert to NTFS that quite
easier way that how I did....

The hard drive is from on existing PC so it was formatted as NTFS. When
installing Windows, I always delete all existing partitions during setup
anyway so it's reformatted by the setup program.

But in my case, it wasn't even getting anywhere near that stage.

Cheers, Rob.

"Rob Nicholson" wrote:
It feels like some weird conflict between the two IDE devices but
I’ve
never
come across that before - they are on different channels.
I’ve tried a
different DVD-ROM drive and a different IDE cable, same problem.

Tried HDD as IDE 0 master and DVD as IDE 1 slave, no difference
Tried HDD and DVD on IDE 0 as master and slave, no difference

All very strange!

Cheers, Rob.

No -- set HDD in IDE 0 as Master and put DVD or CD ROM in IDE 1 as
master but if you use 2 drive in IDE 1 then set DVD as master and
CD-ROM or writer as slave as it usual work fine, dont put DVD or CD
ROM in IDE 0 -- only put in IDE 1

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"Rob Nicholson" wrote:
Did you say that you format hard drive with NTFS??? it dont work
great - usual begin with FAT32 at the begin and then when you go
into
Windows XP blue screen setup and then convert to NTFS that quite
easier way that how I did....

The hard drive is from on existing PC so it was formatted as NTFS.
When
installing Windows, I always delete all existing partitions during
setup
anyway so it’s reformatted by the setup program.

But in my case, it wasn’t even getting anywhere near that stage.

Cheers, Rob.

format hard drive at the begin by using FAT32 and then when you in
Windows XP setup screen then convert to NTFS that how it work
normally.

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CD-ROM or writer as slave as it usual work fine, dont put DVD or CD
ROM in IDE 0 -- only put in IDE 1

The only reason I understand for doing this is that bandwidth is halved is
the two devices are on the same IDE channel. So copying from HDD to CD/DVD
if on IDE-0 can't run at full speed and may get buffer underruns. However,
as most CD/DVD writers have buffer underrun protected, this is less of a
problem.

Cheers, Rob.