We've built up a box with an ABIT BX6v2 motherboard, two CD-ROM drives, and two HDD, one 40GB and I'm not sure how big the second HDD is - both are Maxtor.
All drives are jumpered to cable-select. The two CD drives are on one IDE plug, the two HDD on the other. The C:\ HDD is intended to be the 40GB.
When everything was installed, we set the BIOS to boot order: C, then CD-ROM
Next popped in the WinXP install CD, and turned it on. Boot ran off the CD, came up and allowed us to format the 40GB drive and partition it, and the XP installer sees it as C:\. WinXP then copied over its install files and rebooted.
Apparently the HDD are not being detected. No matter what boot order I define in the BIOS, it appears to go straight to the CD.
I tried removing the CD-ROM from the drive and rebooting, then it fails and asks for a system disk.
I'm not sure what to try next in diagnosing/correcting the problem. I'd very much appreciate any ideas or suggestions.
Many thanks!
--Christie
All drives are jumpered to cable-select. The two CD drives are on one IDE plug, the two HDD on the other. The C:\ HDD is intended to be the 40GB.
When everything was installed, we set the BIOS to boot order: C, then CD-ROM
Next popped in the WinXP install CD, and turned it on. Boot ran off the CD, came up and allowed us to format the 40GB drive and partition it, and the XP installer sees it as C:\. WinXP then copied over its install files and rebooted.
Apparently the HDD are not being detected. No matter what boot order I define in the BIOS, it appears to go straight to the CD.
I tried removing the CD-ROM from the drive and rebooting, then it fails and asks for a system disk.
I'm not sure what to try next in diagnosing/correcting the problem. I'd very much appreciate any ideas or suggestions.
Many thanks!
--Christie