I use a DOS boot disk because I do not trust windoze,just to do the primary partition,I know that I could use Gdisk from Norton..Using windoze is fine as long as it is only windoze,but some repair utilities will only run from DOS and will not see the hdd created under windoze
The hdd is set to cable select,I do not have an ide dvd it is a sata,,the weird thing is that if there is another hdd attached it works fine but not by it's self [singleton]...And I do have the second latest bios for this mobo the next and newest is 1701 which is just an update for cpu's,the one thing that i have not tried is another ribbon cable..
At present I am using the hdd as a master with the long boot delay..
Going to try another cable,,, just maybe...
Thank you all for your attention and input,it always helps to have more than one brainbox examining things...