Nothing seems to be able to access my hard drive. See my message 162109. Tried to partition/format/undo and ran into my problem. Hard disk shows up in BIOS and on POST. But when I try to run fdisk, Western Digital diagnostics, Delpart or anything else, they all say no hard disk or error reading hard disk. This is a fairly new hard drive. Less than a month old. WD 80gb, 7200rpm, ata100. Windows was running crappy so wanted to do a reinstall from scratch. Need help

I just suggested fdisk/mbr in your other posting. Could be the drive is bad if the WD diagnostics doesn't find it either. Do you have another machine you could drop it into to do a double check?

Tried that too Dan. No second machine available at this time. Thnx for sticking with me on this.

Only one hard drive? Set as master? 80 eide cable? Have you tried cable select? I think WD uses no jumpers for master on that drive. Leon Wisnensky The Hot Dog Vending Pimp

Actually there's two possibilties for the jumper settings; http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=84&p_created=1005005461&p_sid=v8PPGVoh&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MTUmcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1zZWFyY2hfZm5sJnBfcHJvZF9sdmwxPTkxJnBfcHJvZF9sdmwyPSZwX2NhdF9sdmwxPTEyMyZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PWp1bXBlciBzZXR0aW5ncw**&p_li=

Don't use cable select...EVER! lol The jumper settings are printed on the top of your HDD...there's different settings for master or master w/slave. However, if it was running OK at one time, I doubt there's a prob with the jumper. Did you clear CMOS then run thru your BIOS settings? Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @8x210mhz 512mb PC3200 Ti4200/8X 128mb WDC 60GB

due to hdd being detected in bios, try a different 80wire IDE cable and have hdd as the only unit on cable. Be sure hdd is jumpered as single, not as master or slave.