Maxtor Hard Drive Problem!

[j1b5c]

I got a new barebones system from mwave and I put all my old parts in the new system. I put them all in and I turned it on and my computer started up and didn't detect my Maxtor 40 gb Ultra ATA/100 hard drive. I thought that was weird so I turned it off and checked the connections and I booted up again and it still didn't work. I then unplugged my slave drive (some old 10 gb hard drive) and unplugged my cd-rom. I booted up and again it didn't work. I then unplugged the IDE cable to the hard drive to see if it was even getting power and I turned it on and it didn't make any noise and if I touched it didn't vibrate or anything. I plugged it into two different computers and I still get nothing. Everything else in my computer comes up fine, the cd-rom and slave drive, so am I out of luck? Do I need a new hard drive? Thanks for any help! Oh yeah I also tried using different power connectors too.

 

[corkyg]

Using a 80-wire ATA 66/100 cable, set your Maxtor jumpers to CS and then connect it. Make sure you have all 40 pins connected and it is properly oriented with the red edge towards the power connector. Have you fdkisk'd and formatted the drive? If not, it won't register at all. Also, try a different IDE cable.

 

[GAZZA]

Just to add two things to Corky-g's excellant advice , is to make sure if your using a ata66/100 cable that you orientate the cable correctly - meaning that the blue end plugs into your motherboard and that the black end goes to a master device and the grey to a slave device .

My other point is make sure your hard drive is detected in your bios before you attempt to boot , this way you'll know you got all your cables connected correctly .