From: "Bill Lang" :Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 9:02 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] hard drive controller problems


> My hard drive gave out and I bought another at a used computer store and I
installed it. It had windows NT on it and I wanted windows 95. I put the new
hard drive in and set the BIOS to recognize it and then used a windows 95
startup disk to use Format C:/s on it. My new drive C: now had COMMAND on it
and nothing else. I copied MSCDEX to drive C: and installed the CDROM
drivers. The reason I put MSCDEX on I did not have the CDROM drivers, so I
went on the internet and downloaded it and their installation said I had to,
anyway the CDROM worked. When I booted it to C: drive I typed in D: Setup
and installed windows 95 with no problems loading or lockups, nothing, went
great. Windows works great but now I can only read the CDROM. When I try to
setup something from the CDROM it says it can't find the SETUP.EXE. In
device manager the hard drive controllers say Standard Bus Mastering IDE
Hard Disk Controller with a yellow asterisk. I know this means it has a
problem but their is no IRQ conflicts. I also expected to see a Primary and
Secondary (duelFIFO) with a Master Controller but I don't. I checked my text
book, internet, school but nobody seems to know what my problem is. I tried
erasing the hard drive several times and reinstalling again with same
results, any suggestions? Anybody?
> Bill Lang
>

Bill,

You do not mention what kind of motherboard or chipset your computer is
using.  Assuming that you have an Intel IDE chipset, from your symptoms
though I would guess that it is a motherboard chipset that was introduced
after Win95, so Win95 does not have drivers for your IDE controller.  This
will also cause a "No ide" entry to be placed in your registry.   This entry
will have to be removed before you can install your bus master drivers.  It
can be found in the registry at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\SERVICES\VXD\IOS

To install the correct drivers for you IDE controller you will have to
remove the "No IDE' entry in the registry and find the bus master drivers
for your motherboard.  You should be able to find the drivers from either
your motherboard manufacturer or the manufacturer of your computer or  on
the CD-ROM that came with the computer or motherboard.  Intel should also
have the drivers if it is an Intel chipset.  MS  KB article Q151911 has a
very good explanation, how to remove the "No IDE' entry and install the
correct drivers.

If this is not your problem you will have to give us more information for
someone on the list to be able to help you.

Mary Wolden

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