Hard Drives

[milkman]

In have this problem; I am installing this 850 MB Western digital hard drive for one of my professors. He has crucial data on it. I am working with a Dell Pentium II, GX1 series to install it into. I have changed the jumper settings to slave, and went into the bios and changed the secondary IDE to auto detect. I boot up my computer and it is locked up when windows is starting up. I tried changing the jumper to cable select, same thing. I think I have tried everything, but still no luck. If any of you guys have advice I would really appreciate it.

Operating system: Windows 2000, Pentium II processor
Hard drive: Western Digital 850 MB, manufactured in1995.

Thanks again.

 

[Enkrypted]

If you're just hooking it up to get data off of it and it keeps locking up in Windows, I would boot to DOS and use the XCOPY command to copy the directories you want off the drive.

 

[darrenrd]

ran into that problem before with older w.d. drives..if you can set it as a secondary master if you havent tried that already thats what worked for me. some older w.d. didnt like being slaves to the primary