Harddrive install advice needed

[stanger]

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

 

[Sean53221]

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

 

[SgtZulu]

Run the WD install floppy will check if its bad or not and also the bios.

 

[bacillus]

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!

 

[stanger]

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

 

[Sean53221]

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