Western Digital 120GB Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

[Guest]

I have Windows XP home edition on my computer. I bought a Western Digital
120GB Hard Disk Drive (HDD) yesterday to upgrade my older 60GB Western
Digital. The replacement seemed easy when I was reilnstall Windows on the new
drive. But when I tried to restart the computer, it could not recognize the
hard drive, problem continued regardless of the fact all cables were
connected properly. I was tired and so I turned it off for a while. When
restarting it was able to recognize the hard drive, but again when I
attempted o restart the computer could not recognize it. SO I thought
changing it back to my older hard drive, and guess what the same problem.
It recognizes the drive when the computer is off for while. If I try to
restart or turn it off and on in less than a minute it does not recognize the
older HDD neither. But if I leave the computer off again for 2-3 minutes, and
turn it on again, it can recognize it.
Right now, my computer works but I will not try to restart it, hopefully .
Could you please help me solving this issue.
I will appreciate so much your kind help,

Kind Regards,

Firouz

 

[Michael Ortega]

Hello Firouz,

WD should have sent a floppy disk or cd with their hard drive, you can try
running that to see if that sheds light on the problem. Also you can BIOS
updates for your motherboard. Maybe your IDE cable it faulty, or the IDE
slot on your motherboard is broken. Since niether of the hard drive now
work correctly I would tend to think it is your motherboard or cables
causing the problem.

Michael Ortega

 

[Guest]

Thanks Michael,
There was a problem with IDE cable,
Kind Regards,
Firouz