Nope I have no other IDE drives, but i think I put the cable in the wrong way round first time as a pin on the hard drive has been bent (somewhere along the top middle), and out of all the pins to be, they had to put the pin for DMA transfer right there! How stupid of Maxtor and hard drive...
Ok I have downloaded and installed the drivers. Guess what. The hard drive is running in.... yes you guessed it - PIO Mode. I am sure my computer hates me. I think Ia m going to have to resign to PIO mode or go out and buy a SATA disk.
Cant find a way to enable it in the bios and I would a site to download the latest version for my motherboard but when I try to install it t wont let me. It says the BIOS I am trying to update is invalid for this system.
The Computer is an Emachines e4026
The board is an Intel(R) Desktop Board D915GAG (it must be one of the worst boards around!) I Mean. Just TWO PCI Slots, 2 DDR RAM Slots, 1 IDE/2 Sata Connection for Hard Drives and 1 IDE Connection for a floppy drive, a 300W PSU, and a fan that barely ever gets...
OK Tried all the above and its still not working. I have tried different cables, both as master and slave, with Jumpers in Cable Select position, and also the jumpers in the Master/Slave position and every time it is still in PIO mode and the DVD drivce is still in Ultra DMA Mode 4. I have also...
I'm currently in the process of reformattibg the drive so when it is finished I will try that. I have notied by looking at the jumper setting on the DVD drive it is set on cable select and the Hard Drive doesnt need the jumper when set as slave, so i put it somewhere and now cant seem to find it...
I recently got a 320GB IDE hard drive up an runniong alongside my old 80GB SATA Hardrrive as my new one is going to be for games. However when rinstalling anything on it the write speed is REALLY SLOW. It took about 5 minutes to install just a 300mb game thewnwhen I run the game it takes ages to...
I recently bought a Maxtor 320GB IDE Hard Drive, not realising that my other hard drive was a SATA Connection. Not really a major problem as I bought an IDE cable and connected the hard drive up with it, and connected to the DVD RW Drive also.
So all plugged in fine and it is detected fine in...
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