HARD DRIVE PROBLEM ON 66MHZ MACHINE

[Rison]

Hey guys. I got my windows 98Se issue fixed last week. Now, on to something harder. The machine I'm working with has a 730MB WD 2700 Caviar hard drive in it. I wanted more space so i got a 20GB Maxtor hard drive. I know I won't be able to use all the space but that's besides the point. My main issue is that I can't get it to boot. When I boot up (I took out the 730MB hard drive) I keep getting an error message saying that the drive isn't recognized. The computer asks me to put in the 'Boot diskette.' When I do so nothing happens. Neither the Windows boot diskette not the diskette that came with the hard drive. How can I get the computer to recognize the hard drive? It's an UDMA/100 drive. Can I change the settings in the BIOS (such as the 'User configure' for Drive D)? If so, how many cylinders and sectors can I put? I believe that I put the cables in the right place (and the power is on) but nothing seems to be happening. Please help me. Thanks

 

[Rison]

help

 

[arcenite]

It sounds to me like you have too much money on your hands, but in any case... Have you tried booting with a boot disk and then fdisking the drive, then rebooting and installing an OS via floppy. What i do on my machine that's similar to yours, is I have the dos install disks so anytime I redo everything I just put that disk in and dos installs right off the bat

 

[Elledan]

I thought that not all E-IDE drives are compatible with an IDE-controller.

 

[bacillus]

the best solution as I see it is to get a ata66/100 pci controller card & attach the new hdd to it to see the full capacity of the hdd & run it at its maximum performance!