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Hurt my PC?
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Posted by: tribalguy

I added a 60G Western Digital to my TiVo1 last night, and it seems to work great so far. I followed Hinsdale's how-to very carefully, and I'm glad I did.
However, now my PC has trouble booting to Windows XP. I have just one HD in it (C:), formatted as FAT32. Sometimes it boots, very slowly; sometimes it says the boot process fails.
I never removed the cable or power from the HD, it's on the Primary IDE Cable of course, and I assumed it was set to Master, though if it was on Cable Select would that create a problem? For the TiVo upgrade, I used a boot floppy, and followed the instructions as recommended.
I haven't seen any other posts about PC troubles following the hack--anyone know what I did?

Posted by: Robert S

Did you change the BIOS settings?

Check the cables haven't worked loose.

The upgrade procedure shouldn't be hazardous to your PC's health.

Posted by: tribalguy

I never went to the BIOS, and the cables appear to be firmly in place....

Posted by: tribalguy

Upon further review, I see that I had indeed changed the PC's HD from the default Cable Select to "Master with a Slave." Now that I've changed it back to CS, it's working fine (since there's now no slave).
Always put things back the way you found them.
I had trouble with another PC earlier when trying to upgrade TiVo because I inserted the IDE Cable backwards (why aren't they keyed?) when replacing the HD afterward. I guess I'm learning my lessons.

Posted by: Robert S

Most current IDE cables are keyed with both a notch in the socket and a missing pin. I prefer non-keyed IDE cables as it gives you the flexibility to connect it backward if that's more convenient.

Hard drives don't spin up if you connect the cable reversed, floppy drives spin continuously and will erase the inserted disk if they're connected backwards.