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Hard drive no longer recognized... ?!?
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Name: Dan
Date: March 6, 2001 at 20:54:45 Pacific
Subject: Hard drive no longer recognized... ?!? |
Comment:
Please help!
I'm running a Dell Pentium 2 - 450 MHZ, with a SONY CD-RW drive, one Maxtor 20.4 gig drive, and one IBM DeskStar 75GXP drive, at 61.4 GB. My 0S is Win2k, and both volumes are NTFS. Up until last week, I didn't have any problems. I removed the DeskStar drive from my system, though, and now after reinstalling it, the drive is not recognized at startup. Instead, the system hangs at the BIOS autodetect screen. I've tried changing the jumpers, setting the drive at different ends of the IDE cable, checking the power supply, and so on. Any clues on how I can fix this? I need that data!!
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Response Number 1
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Name: dude
Date: March 6, 2001 at 20:59:29 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)hello there
have you got by any chance a floppy disk in your floppy drive or a cd-rom disk in your cd rom drive at time of boot up? remove them and see if it makes a difference
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Response Number 2
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Name: Quirinux
Date: March 6, 2001 at 21:11:08 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hi, Just check and make sure you have the cables turned the right way. Red strip against power source on hdd, and towards the nr1 on the motherboard. I do not think it has anything with the boot order like Dude is referring too, more an issue of the motherboard not recognizing the drive. If cables are all fine, jumpers set correctly, try to run the software for the drive itself?!. Maybe there's an option where u can update the bios? or correct settings within it. Email me if you have futher problems.
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Response Number 3
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Name: Dan
Date: March 6, 2001 at 21:19:17 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)No, there were definitely no floppy's or CD's in the drives. A bit of additional info: This drive that is not being recognized is an IBM. I borrowed a friend's IBM hard drive - same model, different capacity - and put it in place of my IBM drive for a bit of tweaking. My BIOS recognizes his drive fine, but doesn't acknowledge mine. Help!
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Response Number 4
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Name: Ron
Date: March 6, 2001 at 23:36:11 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Get a copy of IBM's drive fitness software. It will check the drive for errors. You may need to use one of the programs that IBM recommends to properly format the drive because of it's size. I think that you were fortunate to begin with that the drive even worked. Most BIOS's won't support drivers larger than 40G's without a BIOS update. This is why your friends worked OK. Yours worked for while then the BIOS had second thoughts.I've seen this problem before with the super large drives. http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm#Drive%20fitness
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