Toshiba 1.8 HDD in Portege 2000 not recognized by anything!

[jdmport]

I have a Toshiba Portege 2000 that I just purchased a HDD for from Amorphorus Tech. The drive is not recognized in the BIOS or when the machine is booted via an External CD-Rom drive into a Win Pre-Install Environment. The Windows setup CD sees the drive as an "Unknown Drive". Any ideas? Thanks!

 

[micker377]

Is this a replacement drive in a machine that previously worked, or a brand new computer?

 

[jdmport]

It is a replcement drive for a machine that previously worked. It does "see" the bad drive when it is installed. The bad drive "hangs" the HDD light. The new drive it reads it, and it goes away. This is an old IPOD drive, I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

 

[Lemon13]

it has, when it is a mac ipod, but u can slave it 2 a windows pc and format it with fat/fat32/ntfs

 

[jdmport]

Yeah, I know that, but it takes a special adapter that's like 50 pin. I don't have one. I was hoping to do it without slaving it. Any other ideas since nothing can see it?