Hard Drive not recognized

[mot98]

Hi All,

A friend of mine asked me to install a new HD on his system, and upgrade to 64mb of EDO RAM.

The RAM installed fine, but when I went to format the HD, it does not recognize it. To test, I put the HD in my own system and formated it. I then re-installed it in his system and booted with a win98 boot disk. FDISK sees the drive, but when I try and cd to "C:" it tells me that it is an invalid drive.

I have checked the BIOS, and can't seem to get this damd thing to work.

Any ideas??

Thanks...

mot98

"I'd rather be dead and cool..then alive and uncool."
---Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man

 

[Hainley]

Have you tried jumpering it as a master and having it be the only thing on the IDE channel? Sometimes, HDD's aren't compatible.

Cheers!

 

[hw45]

How big is the HDD? You're talking of EDO RAM, so it's an older system. Probably you'll have to flash the BIOS or use so called overdrive software.

 

[axgrinder]

I think what hw45 is referring to is called "Disk drive overlay" software or DDo software. Also check your jumpers on the back of the drive. Some drives have a jumper for "master with slave present" if this is enabled and there is no slave there it may have problems picking up the drive.

 

[777Ziggorat]

Try use PQMAGIC. Dload off Kazaa or buy/ dload demo.

cheers

 

[mot98]

The system is an old P1 133mhz, the HD I am attempting to put in, is a 6GB WD. I have it jumpered to be the Primary Master, and it is on the correct IDE cable.

I am going to try and upgrade the BIOS to see if this will fix the problem.


mot98

"I'd rather be dead and cool..then alive and uncool."
---Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man