My motherboard on my computer died(Asus A7v8x-x) and I bought a new board(Abit KD7 RAID). When I hooked my 80gb Western Digital drive up, it won't boot up. The bios sees it as a WD1200(120gb) when the drive is only a WD800(80gb). People have told me it is in the way the BIOS addresses the drive and that I need to set it to LBA, but I have done that and still does no good. Furthermore, when I hooked it up to another computer and used a boot disk, it can't be formatted because it says it's not a FAT16 or FAT32. I didn't have a jumper on there and the drive is set as a primary master on it's own channel. I am unsure on what to do now. I tried calling WD tech and stayed on hold for half an hour before I hung up. I really don't want to buy another hard drive because I can't afford one right now and seems as though there is nothing wrong with this one, or atleast I don't believe it is damaged in anyway since it was working just before my motherboard quit. Any ideas on what to do? Thanks.
Tim
Tim
