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

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Hi,
The drive size is correctly detected in the bios either in the caddy or
directly connected to the IDE cable. The caddy is a "Data-Castle" BT-27 RH
mobile rack. XP is a slipstream copy with SP2.
I'm not sure if that will help at all.

Neil

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On Nov 29, 11:54 am, "neil" <neilp67_@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
The cable in the caddy is an 80 wire as is the cable from the IDE
connector
on the motherboard. I was beginning to think it was something to do with
the
137Gb limit, but I wondered if anyone could confirm that.
The box identifies the caddy as ATA33/66/100/133. I can't quite
understand
why it will allow files to be copied to it but not boot.

thank for the feedback
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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
found that the caddy or it's base can fail from time to time...-
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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
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Check the BIOS so as to see if the 160GB drive is correctly detected.
If the BIOS detects it, the check for the version of XP. You must
have XP with at least Service Pack 1 installed / slipstreamed on your
system before the HD is correctly access.

BTW: You never mentioned the "caddy" make / model.


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