Computer Not detecting new harddrive sometimes

[DarkKnight]

A couple months ago I put in a new 40GB hardrive in my computer and I have been having problems ever since then. The problem is that sometimes, the computer cannot detect the new harddrive and I have to restart once or even twice to make the computer detect it again. I don't think that the harddrive is damaged because it works fine when it is detected and I'm sure I put it in properly. Does anyone know why I'm having this problem 🙁 ?

 

[DIRTsquirt]

What Flavor is the hardrive? please detail your ide configuration

 

[DarkKnight]

The Harddrive is a 40 GB UDMA EIDE Hardrive and it's currently set as a slave.

 

[Coldfusion]

What motherboard?

And how is your motherboard configured to detect the drive? Auto-detect?

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

that happens to me too sometimes
i have a maxtor 40gb drive ata100
im thinking the drive might be going bad....?

 

[DIRTsquirt]

this is like pullin teeth... is a Western digital... cause if it is it is picky as to how it jumpered... I had a hell of time getting a couple of mine going...
if tell me what Ide channel it is on and what is on the same cable i may be able to shed some light on the issue
If it isnt a WD then all Ican say is make sure it is jumpered.. Slave with master.. and not just slave..
you stated it is running slave...

ne way the full Ide config is what I was after... I wish you luck..

 

[Slappy00]

I got a solution

This happenes to one of my WD Caviar 18gig drives. My speculation is taht the HDD needs more time to be recognized, so the first boot the MotherBoard doesnt recognize it but a reset and the drive is dectected the second time around. If this is your problem here is what i did:

Solution 1) YOu can increas your HDD delay to let the HDD powerup and do whatever it has to to be dectedin your system, you can access this in your MoBo BIOS.. the value should be in seconds, and you should increase it to whatever value it need to be properly recognized

Solution2) Goto your bios, and hve teh HDD autodected, then set the drive as manual with the dected values. What will happen is the MB on bootup will not scan that IDE device, but instead will assign the values that were in the manual values, not only giving you a faster bootup but avoiding reboots.


YOur milage may vary depending on your MoBo and its flexibility, any new motherboard should be able to do both of these functions, if you have the drive on a raid card, you might have to move it to IDE 0 or 1 so you can do the tweaking in your BIOS

GL, hope this helps