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Old 01-23-2007, 07:09 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Donnie
Yeah, that could be ide controller, ide cable, or drive.. since you said you tried all of the configurations from primary master/slave and secondary.. have you tried different ribbon cables? How many drives do you currently have hooked up? I just disconnect every unnecessary piece of hardware for the windows install when something like that happens, and usually the problem points itself out..
ive tried different ribbons including one out of a working computer. ive also tried 2 different mother boards. ive also used this windows install on another computer. ive unhooked all hard ware other than the cd-rom with the windows disk and the various drives, and still same thing.

the only thing i can figgure is i have extremely bad luck and all four hard drives are busted including the new one.
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