Hard drive not recognized by computer?

[Ender]

It's an old IBM Deskstar ATA with 60gis. What could possibly be the problem?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Not recognized by the BIOS during power-on self test, or just not in Windows?

 

[Ender]

I guess the former. I'm not sure myself since is the first time I've built my computer. It starts up and at the system information screen it sits at 'Recognizing IDE Drive...'

 

[DaveSimmons]

Since the BIOS isn't seeing it:

Drive could be bad, drive jumpers could be set wrong, cable could be loose or upside down, BIOS could be set to disable the PATA/IDE ports in favor of SATAN.

 

[Ender]

Hmm... I'll look into it. Thanks.

 

[Ender]

All right, I got my computer to recognize the hard drive and now it boots up, but now it's loading up a Gigabit Ethernet Controller Boot Agent (I have no idea what this is) and the nVidia Boot Agent and both say something like this:

"MEDIA FAILURE
CHECK CABLE"

And the Gigait Ethernet Controller wants a boot dsk which I don't have. Any help?

 

[Deskstar]

You say that it now "boots" up, but do you mean that windows loads or installs or what. Your old drive may have some system files that your current machine cannot read properly. Have you tried booting using the win XP cd to format the drive and install windows...or can you not get that far? Be sure to set the Boot Order in your BIOS to have the CDROM boot before the Hard Drive. As windows installs it should load all of the drivers that your machines seems to be looking for.

 

[Duvie]

That is normal with the ethernet and NV bootup...you can disbale them in the bios...The bootups or little dots moving similar to cd rom bootup sequence is normal

That isn't the issue...

The problem is either a bad cable...cable inorrectly connected (IE wrong ends)....or drive set to master but you connected it to the middle connector or the slave....