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Boot limitation of IDE controller
Hi there. I have been working at reviving an old Dell Dimension 2400. Started out installing Windows 7 on an 80GB drive. Worked great after applying the XP drivers for graphics, etc as administrator. So then I went back to xp on that drive. Then I wanted to install Windows 7 on a 200GB Maxtor drive. Wouldn't take it. Didn't even work to install xp or a linux system on that 200GB drive. Went through the whole process of installing, but wouldn't boot. The files were there, the bios recognizes the drive. Windows 7 setup finally told me the error, something like: the IDE controller could not handle the drive. Weird. I know, you are going to tell me to scrap my pc, etc. But I just like the challenge... Right now, the drive is hooked up as additional storage. But that's all I have been able to use as, no matter how many formats (full or quick) it has gone through. Any ideas? Partitioning? Boot sector not killed by format? Thanks in advance.