There is no disk in the drive - Hard Drive Replacement

[Jferranti]

Here is a post that I posted on Dell's Forum. The issue now is that the
Windows XP Professional CD is not seeing the hard drive.

I purchased a Dell Dimension 8100 back in 2001 (BIOS Ver: XP2). Throughout
the years I have replaced the hard drive with a 200 GB (Maxtor Diamond Max
Plus 9) and added a secondary hard drive (160 GB - Maxtor Diamond Max Plus
9). Just recently my main drive (200 GB) went bad and I had to replace it
(Western Digital 320 GB). I replaced the drive and when the machine boots up
it displays the following message:

Primary Hard Disk Drive 0 Not Found
Primary Hard Disk Drive 1 Not Found

After that message it displays "Detecting..." and displays a list of my
drives. It reads the first one (0) as WD & the second one (1) as Maxtor. I
go into the BIOS and it reads them as Unknown Devices.

I inserted the CD that came with the WD drive and it is able to read them as
Primary & Secondary fine.

Then when I insert the Windows XP Professional w/ SP3 CD it cannot find the
drive.

Has anyone encountered this issue before and/or know what the resolution is
for this? I am sure that I am missing something that is simple.

Also I should note that the Jumpers are setup correctly.

Thank you for the response. I did that (for my machine I needed to remove
the battery) and when the machine boots up that message no longer appears. I
went into the BIOS and did the reset. Primary Drive 0 & Primary Drive 1 were
reading Off. I followed the steps in the BIOS reset - Alt + F changes
Primary Drive 0 to Unknown Device. I then loaded the Windows XP Professional
CD and was able to get a little further in the installation process but when
I get to the point where it looks for the drive I get this - There is no disk
in this drive. I am going to try and update the BIOS from XP2 to A09. In
the past I had an issue with version A09 reading certain peripherals so I had
to downgrade it. If this does NOT work any other suggestions with be helpful.

On a side note - I went back into the BIOS and Primary Drive 0 & Primary
Drive 1 are both reading Off after the BIOS reset and reboot. I changed the
settings to Auto and the message appears at the beginning of the startup
process. I went back in and changed the option to User 1 (Primary Drive 0) &
User 2 (Primary Drive 1), rebooted the machine and that error went away
however those settings are locked in and is not allowing me to change them.

Update to the settings being locked. I waited a little while and went back
in and then it allowed me to change the settings. Also with the BIOS I am
going to need to find another machine that has a floppy drive. The other
machines in my house do not have floppy drives.

Thanks again
Joe

 

[Andrew E.]

Download the hd MS-DOS utility from the mfg web site,boot to the floppy,
select to format the hd,even if you only run it for a short while,it'll
retain
some data on it & will not be in its "raw" state...

 

[W****n S***********g]

Here is a post that I posted on Dell's Forum. The issue now is that the
Windows XP Professional CD is not seeing the hard drive.

I purchased a Dell Dimension 8100 back in 2001 (BIOS Ver: XP2).
Throughout
the years I have replaced the hard drive with a 200 GB (Maxtor Diamond Max
Plus 9) and added a secondary hard drive (160 GB - Maxtor Diamond Max Plus
9). Just recently my main drive (200 GB) went bad and I had to replace it
(Western Digital 320 GB). I replaced the drive and when the machine boots
up
it displays the following message:

Primary Hard Disk Drive 0 Not Found
Primary Hard Disk Drive 1 Not Found

After that message it displays "Detecting..." and displays a list of my
drives. It reads the first one (0) as WD & the second one (1) as Maxtor.
I
go into the BIOS and it reads them as Unknown Devices.

I inserted the CD that came with the WD drive and it is able to read them
as
Primary & Secondary fine.

Then when I insert the Windows XP Professional w/ SP3 CD it cannot find
the
drive.

Has anyone encountered this issue before and/or know what the resolution
is
for this? I am sure that I am missing something that is simple.

Also I should note that the Jumpers are setup correctly.

Thank you for the response. I did that (for my machine I needed to remove
the battery) and when the machine boots up that message no longer appears.
I
went into the BIOS and did the reset. Primary Drive 0 & Primary Drive 1
were
reading Off. I followed the steps in the BIOS reset - Alt + F changes
Primary Drive 0 to Unknown Device. I then loaded the Windows XP
Professional
CD and was able to get a little further in the installation process but
when
I get to the point where it looks for the drive I get this - There is no
disk
in this drive. I am going to try and update the BIOS from XP2 to A09. In
the past I had an issue with version A09 reading certain peripherals so I
had
to downgrade it. If this does NOT work any other suggestions with be
helpful.

On a side note - I went back into the BIOS and Primary Drive 0 & Primary
Drive 1 are both reading Off after the BIOS reset and reboot. I changed
the
settings to Auto and the message appears at the beginning of the startup
process. I went back in and changed the option to User 1 (Primary Drive
0) &
User 2 (Primary Drive 1), rebooted the machine and that error went away
however those settings are locked in and is not allowing me to change
them.

Update to the settings being locked. I waited a little while and went
back
in and then it allowed me to change the settings. Also with the BIOS I am
going to need to find another machine that has a floppy drive. The other
machines in my house do not have floppy drives.

Thanks again
Joe

These sata or IDE?

Is the end of the IDE cable plugged into the Master?

Are they jumped correctly?

 

[shawn]

So, your computer hardware recognizes there's a drive? Yet your Windows
won't recognize it?

Is the drive partitioned and formatted? You have to format and partition a
drive before it can be used.