Help with HD WD 40G

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I have an older Award bios 1998 Pentium at 400mhz. It had a 40 gig in it
that went bad. Now with the new one it won't recognize it. I tried all
the the things WD recommends, it just won't see it. Is there something
I'm missing? I set the bios every which way I can think of.
Thank you for any information
David
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It doesn't see the drive at all or doesn't see all 40GB?

Being a WD, it's more likely you have a drive jumpered wrong?
I doubt the bios settings need changed, on a 400MHz-era system the
"auto" setting should work. If there's an "LBA" setting that should
be enabled as well.

If there's a setting for pausing, a HDD detection delay option, you
might turn that on, set to longest time allowed then back it down
towards 0 again to find optimal setting, if it helps.

If you boot to the Western Digital Data Lifeguard floppy (available
for download from their website or in retail packaged drives) does it
see the drive? Is it possible your IDE controller or cabling is
dead/defective, that you could try the other channel or another cable?


Dave
 
I have an older Award bios 1998 Pentium at 400mhz. It had a 40 gig in it
that went bad. Now with the new one it won't recognize it. I tried all
the the things WD recommends, it just won't see it. Is there something
I'm missing? I set the bios every which way I can think of.
Thank you for any information
David
 
Kony,
It doesn't see the drive at all. I will try the things you recommend tonight.

It is jumpered as a master or single.
It has the new cable that comes with the drive installed. It works fine with
a 850 mb WD I have and a 340mb.
It won't boot to the disk from WD it doesn't see the drive.
I have tried two WD 40 gigs. I thought the first was bad.
When the computer looks at the hard drive it locks up. In BIOS setup the HD
detection it locks up.
If I set it like WD recommends User 1063, 16, 63, and normal it locks up
also. I've tried the same with Large, LBA and normal.
The computer runs fine with the other drives I mentioned.
Thanks so much kony for the reply.
David
 
Kony,
It doesn't see the drive at all. I will try the things you recommend tonight.

It is jumpered as a master or single.
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The above means you tried both of those jumper settings, as I believe
master and single are jumpered differently?


Dave
 
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