Hard Drive Dead??

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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
 
Neil Brown said:
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!!
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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.
 
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.
 
Neil Brown said:
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
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Did you check hdd jumper settings so it suits the cable (master/slave/cable
select)
 
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.
 
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