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

Hi Dave,
The cable is the same cable connected to the bay as connected to the drive
directly & is 80 wire. (not sure how long but standard , came with the
motherboard)
Just referencing your other reply different thread, there is no link on the
drive enclosure and the 120Gb drive boots with either the link on the hard
drive set to master or cable select. The 160Gb drive wont boot in the
enclosure with the link in either position, but boots fine when connected to
the IDE cable inside the PC directly. (this is after disconnecting it from
the rear of the caddy.

Neil
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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


Is the bay enclosure and caddy 80 wire capable version?
Are using an 80 wire cable from the bay enclosure to the ide port?
How long is the cable you're using for the bay enclosure?

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Dave




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