Hard Drive Dead??

[Neil Brown]

Hey there,

Bought a new 80GIG IDE drive today. Was on special offer, think I may have
found out why!!

I connected up the bus cable and power cable to the HDD and when I switched
it on the BIOS could not detect the disk. And it made a sound like that of
a bad floppy disk.

I am pretty sure that the disk is the problem, but could someone with a bit
more expierence please confirm this before I take it back to the shop!!!
Is there anything I have missed?? Do i need to format it before the BIOS
will detect it??

Any suggestions will be appreciated!!

Neil Brown

 

[Grant]

Hey there,

Bought a new 80GIG IDE drive today. Was on special offer, think I may have
found out why!!

I connected up the bus cable and power cable to the HDD and when I switched
it on the BIOS could not detect the disk. And it made a sound like that of
a bad floppy disk.

I am pretty sure that the disk is the problem, but could someone with a bit
more expierence please confirm this before I take it back to the shop!!!
Is there anything I have missed?? Do i need to format it before the BIOS
will detect it??

Any suggestions will be appreciated!!

Before you take it back there are a few things you can try:

- make sure the master/slave/cable select jumper is in the appropriate place
- try a different cable
- disconnect any other hard drives and see if it detects it (sometimes really
old and really new hard drives don't work well together on the same cable)
- make sure all the hard drive settings in your bios are set to auto detect

If it still makes that noise, its likely dead.

 

[Guido]

Go back and shoot the ****head that sold it to you.
The jury will understand.

 

[Todd Brooks]

Is it recognized by Windows? Same thing happened to me with a WD800JB...not
recognized by the BIOS but I could use it in Windows in PIO mode - it didn't
want to switch to DMA. You might want to try adding it manually. If it's a
WD there should be instructions how to on the setup sheet, not sure about
others.

 

[Skeleton Man]

Go back and shoot the ****head that sold it to you.

The jury will understand.

Someone should shoot you...

 

[neno]

Hey there,

Bought a new 80GIG IDE drive today. Was on special offer, think I may have
found out why!!

I connected up the bus cable and power cable to the HDD and when I switched
it on the BIOS could not detect the disk. And it made a sound like that of
a bad floppy disk.

I am pretty sure that the disk is the problem, but could someone with a bit
more expierence please confirm this before I take it back to the shop!!!
Is there anything I have missed?? Do i need to format it before the BIOS
will detect it??

Any suggestions will be appreciated!!

Neil Brown

Did you check hdd jumper settings so it suits the cable (master/slave/cable
select)

 

[Scott Jonas]

Hi, are you sure the motherboard can handle that size?
I had a pc that I tired to put a 40gb in and it wouldnt take it. Biggest it
would take was 30gb.