Manually entering hard drive specs in BIOS

[Quimbly]

My hard drive (Western Digital WD800JB Caviar 80 GB) crashed and is now not being recognized by my BIOS. It just doesn't even acknowledge that it exists. So, I'm trying to enter the values in manually in the BIOS.

I went to the WesternDigital site and got the following information about my hard drive:
Cylinders: 16,383
Heads (logical): 16
Heads (physical): 4
Sectors / Track: 63

Platters: 3
Bytes / Sector: 512
User Sectors / Drive: 156,301,488

Formatted capacity: 80,026MB

I have an ASUS A7N266 - VM/LAN/AA motherboard. In it, I can only specify the following paramters about a drive: Cylinders, Head, Sector.

I tried entering 16,383 for Cylinders, 16 for Head, and 63 for Sector, but it came up with a size not even close to 80GB.

Any idea what I have to specify for Cylinders/Head/Sector to get my drive's size?

 

[micker377]

Sounds like the drive has died. Can you put another drive in (temporary) to see if the "auto-detect" on the mobo is O.K.? Or put the drive in another computer to see if it is recognized?

 

[Quimbly]

Thanks for the response.

Yes, my board works fine, as I can put in other drives and have them properly detected.

I haven't yet tried the drive on another computer yet, but I will give it a try.

 

[Lemon13]

the drive seems to be dead, get a replacement