Re: Bit more pootery help please

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:32:28 +0000, Austin Shackles
<austinNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On or around Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:37:15 +0000, Tim Hall
><timhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> enlightened us thusly:
>>
>>Looking in device manager I don't have an entry for CD drive - the
>>list goes: Note the !.
>>
>>Disk drives
>>Display adaptors
>>Floopy controllers
>>Hard disk controllers
>> ! Primary Ultra ATA controller
>> ! Seconday ditto
>> VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Controller
>
>chances are you'll have 2 entries for IDE controller anyway; IME windows
>installs its own and the setup stuff for the board/chipset installs *its*
>own. Generally, I dsiable the standard one and hfr the one that came with
>the chipset.
>

>>Other devices
>> !PCI Ethernet controller
>> !PCI Multimedia audio device
>> !PSI USB
>
>try installing drivers off the CD wot came with the board, assuming you
>haven't.
>

But I can't see the CD drive, on acount of the IDE controller being
borked. There's a hole in my bucket.

Tried using xcopy from DOS to copy the driver CD onto the HDD but it
screwed up the directory structure when it copied and went foom.

>>Was it a Bad Thing to put the old HDD in the new mobo? And expect it
>>to jbex?
>
>When I did this recently, i set the bios to boot from CD-rom first, booted
>from the XP setup disk (98 in your case), ran setup and selected "repair the
>exisiting installation"
>
>this actually jbexed. amazing.


I feel a reformat hard disk coming on. First find backed up data,
which has been put in a safe place.


Tim
.

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