Hi I received a new motherboard (old one was not working anymore) for my 3 year old pentium 3 system. After the repair computer worked well but my slave harddrive (Wester Digital 60 GB) is not detected anymore. I checked the cables and conections but everything seems to be alright. Jumper setting is fine as slave. As I do have all my jpg's on this drive I am really worried that I might have lost the data's - can anybody help ?

Hi First I would suggest you vist the WD website and download their diagnostic utility. I'd assume you have a 80 wire ide cable. Make sure the slave drive is on the middle connector (should be the grey one). Check that the master drive does not need a jumper to indicate there is a slave present. If you still have problems, put the WD drive on as the master. Then test again.

Thanks a lot for the feedback - I will check the connections tonight and downloaded DLG diagnostic tool from WD. I do not have the OS on the WD drive - Is there no risk of data loss if I put the WD drive as Master?

Hi The Diagnostic is OS independent. I would try it as the system is now. The Diagnostic should bee able to see the WD as slave and test it. I then suggest if there is indeed some problem where the diagnostic is unable to detect it, then set it as the master with no other drive on the ide cable. I've not know any damage to occur from just testing it unless the drive is actually in the final minutes of its "life".

It sounds to me like you need to install the correct chip set drivers for that motherboard. If you have the CD, great, if not, download the drivers from the motherboard manufacturers web site. I've seen this a lot. I'm betting that if you go into device manager, you see yellow "!" in the IDE controller. Good Luck raincheck

Is the drive detected by the bios but not windows or is it not detected by either?

Harddrive is not detected by Bios and not detected by Windows