scuzzman wrote:
SATA controller is on "ATA mode".
Assuming that this is indeed the equivalent on your PC's BIOS to the settings I mentioned, and that it's not a "Dell-ism" for AHCI mode, then that should work.
You may need to use the MHDD "/enableprimary" command line switch (also mentioned on the MHDD manual web page), depending on how your BIOS maps its SATA ports to the legacy I/O port addresses.
wizard.number.next wrote:
If this was discussed on another thread, then is there a link that you can provide me, vulcan?
The search which I mentioned provided 5 different threads on the first results page, mentioning the need to have the SATA controller in the specific mode that I discussed. Given that you've now done that, and with the assumption that I mention above, the only other setting I can think of (assuming your disk really is OK) is the command line switch above.
Another possibility is that the SATA controller's ATA setting on that laptop really isn't close enough to the original behaviour, to be used by MHDD. We've seen people in the past have problems using MHDD on laptops, but everything is fine when the same person moves their drive to a desktop PC.
I'm sure you can sort out the problems
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