Upgraded computer, let the problems begin

[djohn3853]

Hi All, been a while. Ok, I recently upgraded system 1 to its current configuration in my sig. That freed up the mobo, cpu, mem and vid card to do a hand me down to my second system. That system had been Asus mobo w/Barton and Win xp. So anyway my problems are with system 2. I decided that I would get a ssd and Win7 for that system. I wasn't sure how the Win7 install would go. the old hd's had been in a xp system and the mobo/cpu/mem had been Vista 64 bit.



One of the first things i ran into was I had 2dvd drives and 2 hd's that were all ide. The EP45 mobo only has one ide port. So I decided to toss the dvd's in favor of a new sata one. Someone advised me to keep the old hd's unconnected while i installed Win7 to ssd. That went ok. I bought 2 ide/sata adapters to run hd's by sata. See linky below.



So, my problems are:



Can't get the hd's to work. The computer hangs at the Gigabyte splash screen. I can get to the bios from there but it doesn't show the old hds. One question i have is, do power the ide/sata adapter or only the hd or both? I actually think i've tried all combos with no luck. I've also tried doing only open hd at a time. Is this some kind of master/slave issue? a raid issue?



For now I have hooked up one of the hd's with the ide port. But I hate to give up this easy, want to make this work.

Ok, next issue, during the Win7 install, there was a prompt at one point to either install or upgrade. Now my thinking was, the old computer had xp, the mobo, cpu, mem, vid had been in another computer running vista, and I had no hd's other than the brand new ssd, so how could I upgrade? Now that i have the unit up and running and have one of the old hd's install, most of everything i've tried to run won't work. Get either nothing or error like "application failed side by side cnofiguration" blah blah. I think my xp must have been 32 bit. my Win7 is 64. Is that it? can nothing be done? Should I have upgraded instead of installing? Can I go back and do that now?



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...034ab2c9839340

 

[skipsneeky2]

Had to use one of the adapters once i remember it needing power from a floppy cable...and the adapter for me was trouble..needed one cause a ecs g33 mobo didn't support my ide dvd rom...

 

[WildW]

For your hard drive adaptors, you will almost certainly need power plugged into both the adaptor and the hard drive. By the sounds of it though you just want to use two IDE hard drives - you can generally plug two in with one IDE cable.

As for your upgrade/install question, you did the right thing doing install, and your thinking was correct at the time - there was nothing to upgrade.

Are you trying to run programs that were installed on your old hard computer by plugging in the old drives and trying to run them from where they were? Generally, you can't do this - you will get all the errors you are experiencing. You need to find the original programs (either on discs or download them again) and install them new.

 

[djohn3853]

Yes Wild, I am trying exactly like you said to run the old programs. I will re-install stuff I have discs for and give up on any others.

Ive given up on the ide/sata adapters and just going with the ide cable. I did try powering both the adapter and the hd. No dice.

How would i go about un-installing/removing win xp from one of those hd's? Is it as simple as control panel then add/remove programs?

Or should i just leave it alone?

 

[WildW]

You can leave it alone, it won't do any harm there. The ideal solution is to copy off anything you want to keep to another drive and reformat. You won't be able to to add/remove programs with anything on your old drive because your new Windows installation won't know anything about it.

 

[mfenn]

Agree with WildW with regard to the software.

As for the IDE HDDs, why are you attempting to use a IDE to SATA adapter at all? You have an IDE port and two IDE HDDs, just set up a normal master/slave configuration on with a ribbon cable.