HDD AWOL

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Formatted new drive with W98 Start-up and eventually loaded XP PRO.
Everything went ok so I shut it down.Went back an hour later to load some
progs
but drive is not detected in the bios.I've tried everything,checked
connections,Set drive as ,auto,user etc.
Any ideas as I'm lost.Old HDD failed dont know why.
 
"Took the HDD out of the housing with a view to trying
it in another pc but decided to give it one more try.It worked ok so I shut
down and tried again but its disappeared .DOH!!!!!!!!
 
Hi, John.

It's not clear from your two posts just what you are trying to do. :>(

Is this a drive that you are adding to an existing WinXP installation as a
secondary drive? Or are you trying to install it as the boot device?

Please start over and tell us what your current hardware configuration is
and what you are trying to do. Be sure to tell us how many HDs are
installed and how they are partitioned and formatted.

And WHY are you using Win98 to format your new drive? That's what WinXP's
utility Drive Management (new in Win2K) is for! Throw away that Win98 boot
diskette, or at least hide it so that you won't be tempted to use it again.
At the Run prompt, type: diskmgmt.msc
but drive is not detected in the bios.
Click to expand...

This is a BIOS or hardware problem, NOT a Windows problem. The drives are
detected (or not) long before Windows even starts to load. Have you checked
cables? Jumpers? Power?

RC
 
A friends pc.Old drive died.He gave me the pc to install his new 160 gig.Pc
would not detect the new hdd.Updated the bios and tried to set up XP pro to
partitition ,format and install but during
installation it kept wanting to skip files so I tried another disk and ran
into the same problems.
I then used win 98 to fdisk and format the drive.When dos was complete I
installed xp without any problems this timeShutdown and booted up ok.Left it
for an hour and then prepared to install some progs.Kept getting hdd not
detected at start up.Looked in the bios and the same.Checked all the
connections and even changed the cable from my other pc and still the
same.Decided to try the hdd
in my other pc but offered one more chance and it boots ok.So the problem
is sometimes it is detected and other times not.I wish it was a simple cable
problem but I think its not.
 
I now have the following error message:
Unmountable_boot-volume

Stop 0x000000ED (0x80E96E30,0x00000.....
 
Likely the motherboard is not compatable with a 160GB drive (ie > 137GB). I
am assuming old hard drive in old PC?!?

Contact the motherboard manufacturer to see if board and latest BIOS upgrade
is compatable with >137GB.

If not format the 160GB to 137GB and leave the rest as unallocated /
unformatted space (see the hdd manufacturers manual / website.

Oh, and either use WinXP boot disk to format/partition or the hdd
manufacturers software - not 98 fdisk.

As per RC's recommendation - double check the jumpers if it does not appear
in BIOS.

r.
 
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