Re: 160 Gb drive in a removable caddy give "disk error press ctrl alt del" on boot

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On Nov 29, 5:28 am, neilp <neil...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I dont think its a failure of the caddy because I can still use the
120Gb drive as normal & if I put in a 20Gb drive into the caddy which
I have fitted the 160Gb previously the 20Gb drive will boot and load
the OS on that disk.
Neil

On 29 Nov, 00:44, "philo" <ph...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



"neil" <neilp67_@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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I wonder if anyone can answer this for me. I had a Seagate drive that was
deemed faulty with the above fault so I returned it under warrantee. I
received a replacement that gives the same error at the first boot during
the windows XP setup routine. With the drive in the removable caddy the
error occurs but if I connect the drive to the IDE cables directly the
drive
will boot ok. I have a 120Gb drive normally working in the bay and that
has
always been fine, my second drive is a 250Gb drive so the bios does not
have
a problem with large drives. All IDE cables are 80 pins type.

Any suggestions are welcome.

thanks
Neil

The caddy or it's base *CAN* fail...

I have about 25 removable drives in a total of three computers and have
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What tyoe if IDE cabke is the "caddy" using? IDE cables for most hard
drives should be the 80 wire / 40 pin Ultra DMA IDE cables.

Caddys are not that reliable for the larger hard drives (greater than
the bios LBA limit of 137GB.)
.

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