Alright, I may have posted this before cant remember....

I installed the new 169 nvida forceware or whatever drivers about 5 months ago so yeah...

The moment I installed them my computer...

First, those drivers are not installed anymore. forceware 169 does not work at all no matter what bloody company. I know they arent supported by the company, thats why im asking for your wonderful...

Well here I am again, relying on this great comunity to help me!

OS Name: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS...

Nevermind everyone, I just had to set the jumpers on the new drive to master.

I now have one Master SATA, and one master IDE drive.
The sata is still my boot drive though, so it all worked out...

I do have one cd rom drive, but I cannot connect the new hard drive to it because the cable wont reach the hard drive bay.

I have tried both connectors on the IDE cable, and the jumper is already...

2.Only my SATA is connected to the blue cable, the other is connected to the grey "tape".

3. They are connected to a different grey cable than the hard drives

My Boot drive has the blue cable...

Slave drive, the new extra storage 500GB

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x309/Saphirefenix/IMG_0055.jpg

Old master boot drive, 120 gb
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My original Hard drive has a cable coming from the jumper pins(Using them all) and my new hard drive(which will be extra storage) doesnt have anything coming from the jumper pins, but instead it uses...

I am looking for a solution to my new hard drive.

I have recently bought a Maxtor ATA/100 500GB Hard drive.

I followed the instructions on physicaly installing it perfectly.


My master...