Moreover, I ran the WD 40gb drive on a different motherboard and it ran fine. Can someone help me out on this?
bios cant detect HD
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audionet
, Jun 01 2005 11:02 PM
#1
Posted 01 June 2005 - 11:02 PM
Moreover, I ran the WD 40gb drive on a different motherboard and it ran fine. Can someone help me out on this?
#2
Posted 02 June 2005 - 12:25 AM
Is this an IDE or SETA drive? RAID?40gb Western Digital drive on a Diamond Micronics C400 (slot 1) motherboard
In theory, a fresh hard drive (fdisked and formatted, of course) and a clean installation of XP should be cake. XP should install, detect all hardware, load drivers, and be showing a desktop with some icons.
If not, then are you trying something a bit out of the ordinary, like RAID, SCSI, SATA/150, etc? These may require special drivers to be loaded from a floppy at a crucial moment during the installation process. Watch for the message about third-party
drivers.
Ron
#3
Posted 02 June 2005 - 01:06 AM
It is an IDE drive. And the main issue is that the WD drive cannot be detected by the BIOS. Whenever I try to auto-detect it, it just simply hangs up and never even responds to any key. I tried a different drive, a seagate 20 gb hard drive and it was detected right away.
And The same WD 40 gb drive works fine on the different (previous )motherboard.
And The same WD 40 gb drive works fine on the different (previous )motherboard.
#4
Posted 03 June 2005 - 02:20 AM
Perhaps that motherboardis incapable of detecting anything40 g or biger, check out ur website if u know it , if not an u really want the extra space, pehrhaps if u buy one of those usb/lan connected hard/cd/dvd/ drive cases off of ebay u couold place it in that an use it as a storage bay while ur 20 gb harddrive is placed in the computers owndrivebay.
#5
Posted 03 June 2005 - 06:30 AM
@destructo roboto
Yes. I agree. It is possibly an issue with the 32gb barrier because the motherboard was purchased last 1998. I checked on the Western Digital website and they recommended I update BIOS or run their utility program so the BIOS can detect HD.
Yes. I agree. It is possibly an issue with the 32gb barrier because the motherboard was purchased last 1998. I checked on the Western Digital website and they recommended I update BIOS or run their utility program so the BIOS can detect HD.
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