Primary drive 0/1 not found and a firewire question Dell 8300
- From: "KF Daddy" <donotreply@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:13:35 -0500
The history: Running WINXP SP2 BIOS A04. PC is just over 2 years old.
The 8300 came with a 120GB SATA drive. Later, I added a 250GB IDE drive
('cause I didn't know any better).
NOW, I have replaced the 120 with a 320GB SATA. Took out the 250 and put it
in an external case and put in a second 320GB SATA drive. All together I
have 3 external USB drives totaling 690GB and the 2 internal totaling 640GB.
I also added 1GB of RAM to bring it to 2GB so of course now I have the
problem of hibernation not working most of the time.
The problems:
Occasionally when I boot up I get the messages about the primary drive 0 not
found and primary drive 1 not found. In the BIOS the SATA drives are seen
and DVD-ROM and burner are shown as separate line items. The primary and
secondary drive settings were set to AUTO but I changed them to OFF because
I'm assuming they refer to IDE drives which I no longer have. Is this OK or
will it create other problems?
Second question. I had installed a firewire card a while back for
transferring DV from my Sony camera to my PC. Now the PC no longer
recognizes the camera. No ding, no balloon message when I plug it in. Device
manager shows the firewire card as properly working. I've tried a different
cable, and a different camera but none of it has made a difference. Very
frustrating as all this memory and all this HD space is for doing video
editing and I can't even transfer video anymore.
This may be totally unrelated to all the upgrades because the last time I
did a successful transfer was in February. I used Acronis True Image 9.0 for
the cloning, which by the way caused me a lot of trouble initially but
eventually it worked.
I guess my question is, do you have any thoughts on what may be causing the
PC not to recognize the cameras. A google search hasn't really turned up a
viable solution. Only stuff like bent pins in the cable or in the camera
which I've eliminated as a cause by using different combos of what I have.
Also, the only drivers listed for the camera are for USB and for older OS
only.
BTW, I have a new card on order but I have a sinking feeling it won't fix
the problem since the device manager says my current card is OK . Do you
think it could be the card anyway??
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Joe
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