HD Config: IDE or IDE/RAID 40-1 pin

I am getting a 0x0000007B error during Windows XP setup, which is liekly cause by one of four things, a boot-sector virius, my miniport drivers are messed up, or that my two HDs are wrongly configured. Considering that I can not find a virius and I do not feel like messing around with drivers, I thought I would take a look at how the HDs are connected

Just to make it a wee bit more fun, I did not build this computer. It was given to me after the fact, and nearly any documentation on the motherboard and hardrives are missing.

So, I have a 3 MB Western Data SCSI running Windows XP with a Maxtor SCSI HD as a slave drive. I have the drives setup correctly on the IDE cable, and when I am in Windows I can access both and everything is just peachy. Bios boots correctly off of the master drive, but in the bios meny no hard drives are shown as detected. I think that I may have it plugged into the wrong 40-1 pin slot on the motherboard.

It is an Asus Proactive P5GDC. It has one PRI_IDE1 connector, which currently has the DVD-CDRW hooked uo. It also has two IDE/RAID 40-1 pins connectors. The primary one has the pigybacked HDS, and the secondary one is empty.

Do I have the jumpers connected to the right connectors? If so, do I have to set-up a RAID disk array for them to cooperate? If not, what is likely the best way to set it up?

And, if I am set up and configured already, does anyone have any helpful hints concerning 0x0000007B error during installation set-up?

Any help would be appreciated. If you are still reading this sadly long post, that it...

 

The only thing i can think of to possibly repair the boot sector if its corrupt is to boot into MS-Dos and run "fdisk /mbr" and use the repair utility.

Only use this though if you have not used a third party partition program!!!!!

Hope this helps.

 

Are you absolutely, positively sure those are SCSI drives and not SATA? There is a huge difference. Only reason I ask is, for one, there's no way you have a 3MB hard drive, afaik they never even made them that small ever. Another reason is that it does not mention anything in that link you gave about SCSI ports on that motherboard, so there's no way you could have SCSI hard drives. Although, maybe I overlooked it.

If they are SATA, you most likely need to press F6 when it prompts you and install the SATA drivers. Come to think of it, even if they are SCSI, you have to install their drivers that way(at least I think, I'm not 100% sure.)