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rowan · 04-18-2009, 04:15 PM

Don't panic yet. Put it in another machine (your old system?), the drive is probably fine. It's possible there's some quirk with the SATA-IDE translation which is confusing the OS.

Doesn't your new mainboard have an IDE port?

04-18-2009, 04:15 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	Don't panic yet. Put it in another machine (your old system?), the drive is probably fine. It's possible there's some quirk with the SATA-IDE translation which is confusing the OS. Doesn't your new mainboard have an IDE port?