hard drive not found

[Auri87]

well i just bought a new harddrive today, maxtor 80 gig 7200 rpm model number D720X-6L. i put it in, set it to slave but when i started up my computer nothing was detected. im using windows xp professional with SP1. then i tried the bios to see if i could find it but no luck. im using the same IDE cable as my other hard drive. any idea on whats wrong? any help or opinions would be appreciated


thanks in advance, Auri87

[ronin1967]

is it the only device on the cable?

what do you have the jumper set for? you may have to switch the jumer on the other device as well...

[Auri87]

both of my hard drives are on one cable.
ill try the jumper right now, but i dont think thats the problem, my other harddrive is working fine, but its my new one it cant find

any other ideas?

[minoukat]

Set both to Cable Detect, and set the one with Windows on it on the Master cable head

[ronin1967]

Just to test the drive, why not set it to master and make it the only drive on the cable, then restart and see if BIOS detects it. If BIOS can detect it, but you were still worried about it's integrity, you could download a utility from Maxtor to test it(the utility runs off a floppy that is bootable). If it passes both test, then check the other HDD to see where it's jumper is set(some HDD has a only position, make sure it's not set that way)

[Auri87]

well i finally got my bios to detect it, under add new hardware it says its installed and working but i still dont have access to it, heres a screenshot http://www.geocities.com/auri87/snap1.jpg
anymore ideas?

[ronin1967]

Saw the screen shot, the reason it isn't in My Computer is because you haven't formatted it with a file system yet.

See if you can see it here:

Start

Right-click My Computer

Select Manage

Expand Storage if it's not(click the +)

Doubl-click Disk Management

[ArBiTaL 24]

You should get Partitionmagic, latest version 8.0 i belive. I have ver.7. It comes with Bootmagic, for booting to differant partitions, and is very awesome program for fromatting and partitioning drives!