Great news
Glad you got it working Matt I applaud your perseverance
Wish I could answer that, but my guess is the DVD & HDD are connected to the same IDE channel in a Master/Slave configuration and the faulty DVD was probably taking out the whole channel
Does that make sense ?
Anyway all's well that ends well
Graeme
Great newsGlad you got it working Matt I applaud your perseverance

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Why was the problem drive causing the BIOS to ignore the HDD, despite it being first in line?
Wish I could answer that, but my guess is the DVD & HDD are connected to the same IDE channel in a Master/Slave configuration and the faulty DVD was probably taking out the whole channel
Does that make sense ?

Anyway all's well that ends well
Graeme
Glad you got it working Matt I applaud your perseverance

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Why was the problem drive causing the BIOS to ignore the HDD, despite it being first in line?
Wish I could answer that, but my guess is the DVD & HDD are connected to the same IDE channel in a Master/Slave configuration and the faulty DVD was probably taking out the whole channel
Does that make sense ?

Anyway all's well that ends well
Graeme