Can't find my new HD

[JCFB]

Hei
I have a new IDE Hard Drive (Western Digital ) 180Gb, and I try to connect into my computer. But my computer cant find it. I put the jumper to slave on my new HD and master at the old one with Win XP Pro, but still I can’t see it in the BIOS.

I tried to remove the HD with the OS on and startup with a win 98 startup disk, this time the computer detected the new HD, now I had the jumpers to single. But when I run fdisk I got the message ”Fail writing to disk”.

I’m not shore if I’m suppose to use a 40 or 80 pins IDE cable, so I tried both, I couldn’t se any different.
So know I’m out of ides, I hope someone can give me some new or tell me what I did wrong.
Tanks!

 

[xjlkx]

Have you tried autodetecting the drive in the BIOS?

 

[JCFB]

I can't finde atodetect in the BIOS. It's a new IBM computer and it's very little to do in the BIOS. Just change password and wich drive to start from

 

[wolluf]

You'll need an 80 wire cable (your drive probably ATA100 or 133). Are you sure about the bios?

You've got XP pro, so try installing new disk as master (leave old one out) with an 80 wire ide connector. Then boot from the XP install CD. Continue as if to install XP until it gets to where to install. If it doesn't see the drive there, I'd consider returning it to supplier. If it does, you could create and format partition(s) then abandon the install. Put it back as slave and see if your XP can now see it.

I'm suggesting this as not sure fdisk can cope with such big drives (think max fat32 partition is c. 128MB, and 64GB fix for fdisk says max is 137GB

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q263044).

PS - you said new IBM computer, so I'm assuming no problem with the bios being able to see such a large drive.