Hard drive hell!

[Mokona]

I have just purchased and installed a WD 40G hard drive. The problem
that I am having is this: whenever Windows XP detects the new hard
drive, my system reboots. Every single time. If I let it, it would
reboot forever at the same point.

Right now I'm running it as a Slave to my Maxtor 40g on IDE 1.

Things I've tried:

Making it master on IDE 2(Same Problem)
Using Cable Select for both the master and slave (same problem)
Bought a new case with a 400w PS (Same problem)
I installed the WD in another computer to make sure it was not bad
(worked fine, formatted in xp and everything)

The bios recognizes the drive just fine. It's only when XP recognizes it
that my computer dies. Any thoughts? I'm at a cpmplete loss and I've
asked several "computer" people who have no freakin idea themselves.

 

[forkd]

I had a similar problem with a WD. I'm no gee-n-yus but what I did was to use the WD utilities disk and perform a low level format on the disk. It took a few hours to complete and then I had to run fdksk on it and format it but from there it was fine.

good luck

btw...In my case I tried doing fdisk and format first and they did not work I had also tried to use Partition magic to fix the drive to no avail beating my head against a concrete floor seemed to make some of the stress subside though.

 

[Mokona]

Hehe thanks, I'll give that a shot.

 

[kursplat]

check your HD jumpers too. WD by itself on a channel does not need ANY jumpers. also the WD and the maxtor do not use the same config for the jumpers.
good luck