I added a WD 80 gig to a dell which has a Maxtor 30 gig and the bios does not see the new drive.XP see's and I can use the 80 but my problem is if the bios does not see it I cant make a a clone with Ghost 2003.I have tried every combo of jumper settings on the drives but still nothing.How do I get the dell bios to see the 80 gig as slave on the primary ide?
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HD not seen by bios
- Thread starter Chief
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I would try to find a new version of the bios for your mobo... seems as thou the bios is too old to see a hd thats that new.
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WD drives are known to be picky, I have a WD drive that'll only work with my Maxtor drive if I remove the jumper (Setting it to slave, master or cable select doesn't work).
Did you try to see if the BIOS detects the drive if it's the only drive on the cable?
Did you try to see if the BIOS detects the drive if it's the only drive on the cable?
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have u asked the bios to autocheck, also check if the harddrive is getting power
also have u created a partition yet ?
also have u created a partition yet ?
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I have tried every combo of jumpers and lack of I can thing of and bios will not see it.The weird thing however is xp see's it and I can use it.I formated in ntfs with one partition as is the 30 gig maxtor.Bios gives me (none) and (n/a) but no option for auto detect.Thats the first thing I tried.
