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Harddrive install advice needed

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stanger

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my nephews 15 gig western digital hard drive went out so he ordered a new 40gig western digital and booted up it wasnt detected just the press F4 to skip message..in the bios under hdd detection it couldnt find it either so i thought the mobo might have been bad so i put my 30 gig western digital harddrive in it and it detected it right away, so could the new one be bad from the factory?

stanger
 
It could indeed be bad, but still what era motherboard/bios is he using? I know there's a barrier right around 40gigs for some BIOS's.

Sean
 
I assume you used the correct jumper settings for master/slave.
may be worth a try using cable select jumper setting to see if it's detected!
 
yeah i used the master and tried cable select and no jumpers 🙁.....also the DVD was detected on secondary controller , so i tried the drive on that and still didnt find it

stanger
 
Okay so remember too that WD hard drives (some/most of them) have a separate setting for master with slave and master without slave on the same chain.

Usually it's all jumpers off for single drive (meaning you don't have a second/slave drive on the same cable),

and a particular (see docs) single jumper on for master mode.

Try also the "2gb Clip" function of the drive (see docs on how to jumper for this) to see if it's a BIOS limitation.



Sean
 
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