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is hard disk broken or controller
i have asus motherboard,chipset mcp 430,i have two hard drives,sata (wd 6400 aaks) and ide disk wd 800bb 80 gb.my primary master is sata disk,secundary is dvd cd rw,and i used to have my ide wd 80 gb on cable select and it worked fine....now i can see my drive in windows 7 x64,but booting taks 10 min approximatly..windows shows ide disk is its in pio mode 4. ,something is wrong when post message takes to long to finnish)When i try to install win7 on wd8800bb and format drive to install win 7 on it computer says there is no controller for drive in question set in bios,and it wont format drive and install win 7.....is there a simple way to exclude hard disk failure(boot post always says is udma 5,smart status ok,so i dont believe its broken)....this problem i to0 hard for me,but i hope it could be resolved,in any way. how to check if its broken.i dont have no one to test hard drive,like frends pc,.is it some sort of my motherboard problem..the ribbon cable is new 80 pin bought in store .