yep, both are western digital hard drives so the standard no jumper setting
applied to both hard drives and regular cable on each. it's definitely the
flaky motherboard. a friend had the same problem with his and found no
solution either other than to run both hard drives on one ide drive but that
seems to over heat my video card. i'm planning on eventually copying
everything over to the larger hard drive and getting rid of the smaller hard
drive altogether eventually. anyway, would like to figure out this phantom
3rd hard drive error in the meantime...
"Fred Orton" <fred.(remove)orton@(remove)timberland-(remove)supply.com>
wrote in message news:k0S3b.58991$. ..
> Just a question - are you sure that you have the hard drives configured
and
> cabled correctly? According to the ide standard, either ide 1 or 2 should
> be able to have an individual hard drive on it, as long as the drives are
> set to master. Unless you have an ide cable with a twisted section in the
> middle of it, you should not use the 'cs' or 'cable select' setting.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Fred.
>
> <> wrote in message
> news:biokol$bkoah$...
> > I only have two hard drives but i keep getting an error in windows xp
that
> > keeps saying that this nonexistent 3rd hard drive is empty and for me to
> > delete programs from it. that would be difficult to do since there are
no
> > programs installed on an nonexistent hard drive, LOL. how do i get rid
of
> > this error message? motherboard is an msi kt3 ultra 2 and i have both
> hard
> > drives on ide 2.
> >
> > this motherboard, incidentally, will not support individual hard drives
on
> > separate ide connectors either, to my eternal frustration. either they
> both
> > go on one ide cable or one hard drive and one cd drive on ide 1 and 2.
> that
> > also drives me crazy.
> >
> > This is the webpage for the motherboard but I don't see updated IDE
> drivers
> > for it. Any other advice?
> >
> >
>
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/produc...etail.php?UID=
> > 341&MODEL=MS-6380E
> >
> >
>
>
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