The old PC my dad had, a NEC Ready 7020, isn't connecting to IDE hard drives.
The old PC my dad had, a NEC Ready 7020, isn't connecting to IDE hard drives.
The hard drive is rotating. This machine has been here since the 90s, and I’m not sure he’d ever let it open before things changed. I’m wondering about the specific adjustments that should be made now if it performed similarly with the same storage device. Still, could you clarify what those parameters are and how they function?
Back during those days, PCs are dumb and cannot tell how many drives it's connected. You need to tell the motherboard how many HDDs you have and which position it's set to. There should be a label on the drive itself that shows you the settings. Look at your bios image, it says IDE adapter 0 and 1, this indicates there should be 2 separate connectors on the board, if adapter 0 won't detect anything, can always try adapter 1. Can also try another set of IDE cables, maybe the on you have is bad after all these years. This is the newer IDE cable
The main concern lies in determining the exact location of a newly acquired IDE HDD.