Hitachi DesKstar IC35L120AVV207-0 123.5 GB hard drive

[Bazzer]

My computer is a Scott using an AMD Athlon XP 1500+ running XP Home as the
operating system.



I am trying to set up a new Hitachi DesKstar IC35L120AVV207-0 123.5 GB hard
drive as a slave drive.

My master drive is a Maxtor 4D040H2 40GB hard drive.

I have checked the jumper settings are OK for a master / slave set-up.

(I have also tried setting the jumpers on the slave as 16 & 15 head)

On going into the bios none of the hard drives show up!

And cannot be set-up.

I have tried both auto & manual bios set-up.

After coming out of the bios and trying to boot with the new drive as set as
slave I get this error message:

Disk boot failure insert system disk and press enter.

This means of course that the computer will not boot up with the slave drive
attached.

If I detach the slave drive the master hard drives shows up in the bios and
the computer boots OK.



I can install as a slave drive an old Western Digital Caviar 2340 hard
drive.

But this is only a very small 324 MB.

Could the new drive at 123.5 GB be too big?

Can a slave drive be bigger than the master?

Why would that stop my master drive showing in the bios and the computer
booting up?



Thanks for reading this.

Bazzer

 

[Guest]

Slave drives can be larger than master. Have you tried setting the drive as master and seeing if it shows up in BIOS? If not, I would suspect a problem with the drive. If you make it the onl
drive for testing purposes, you would be able to hear whether it spins up, but even if it does, it could still be bad. I experienced a similar problem with a computer, except with two CD-ROM
drives on one channel. The bad one (also a slave) completely screwed up the IDE channel untill removed
Jef

----- Bazzer wrote: ----

My computer is a Scott using an AMD Athlon XP 1500+ running XP Home as th
operating system



I am trying to set up a new Hitachi DesKstar IC35L120AVV207-0 123.5 GB har
drive as a slave drive

My master drive is a Maxtor 4D040H2 40GB hard drive

I have checked the jumper settings are OK for a master / slave set-up

(I have also tried setting the jumpers on the slave as 16 & 15 head

On going into the bios none of the hard drives show up

And cannot be set-up

I have tried both auto & manual bios set-up

After coming out of the bios and trying to boot with the new drive as set a
slave I get this error message

Disk boot failure insert system disk and press enter

This means of course that the computer will not boot up with the slave driv
attached

If I detach the slave drive the master hard drives shows up in the bios an
the computer boots OK



I can install as a slave drive an old Western Digital Caviar 2340 har
drive

But this is only a very small 324 MB

Could the new drive at 123.5 GB be too big

Can a slave drive be bigger than the master

Why would that stop my master drive showing in the bios and the compute
booting up



Thanks for reading this

Bazze

 

[Bazzer]

I returned the drive to the shop for a replacement and it installed with no
trouble.
many thanks for your post.
Bazzer