New hard disk causes system not to boot

[geekgeek]

Hey guys,

I've been running my rig on a 120GB Western Digital HDD with no problems at all.

Today, I got myself a Hitachi 250GB for more storage, so I set my old WD as master on IDE0 and the new Hitachi as slave on the IDE0, with the relevant jumper settings.

During the boot sequence, the new disk showed up in BIOS so I thought all was good, but then suddenly I got the message "Disk boot failure, please insert system disk and press Enter".

I thought I might had to use Fdisk on the new HDD so I booted to dos but it only detected the new HDD as 8GB when I tried Fdisk, but I went ahead and tried to create a FAT32 partition anyway. Fdisk started to verify the drive and it ran for almost 4 hours with no sign of stopping so I stopped the process.

What I need to know is am I on the right track, so do I have a faulty hard drive? Should I need to Fdisk a second hard disk even if I am not booting from it?

 

[NavJitsU4]

Did the hitachi come with a CD? usually they have some tools on there to set up the drive.

 

[geekgeek]

Nah, the drive came alone

I guess the question I really need an answer to now is: Do I need to run an Fdisk on the new HDD before I can boot up because I didn't think it was necessary since I wasn't going to be using it as a boot partition

 

[Bug]

Were the jumpers on your old hard drive set to "cable select"?

 

[geekgeek]

Nope, I set them to master because I set the new as slave

Might setting them both to cable select help?