New Seagate 80 GB suddenly not recognized by mobo

[Rebel7254]

My Maxtor 60 GB has been acting up some lately so my dad brought home a new Seagate 80 GB HDD. I put it in last night, installed windows and partitioned it etc. It was working fine. I rebooted 3 or 4 times while I was installing stuff on it. I wake up this morning and it is a post screen that says "SYSTEM DISK BOOT FAILURE. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER." For some reason it apparently decided to reboot itself in the middle of the night. Now I can't get into windows because my mobo BIOS says I don't have a hard drive installed. I put my old one back in and it works. I've switched back and forth between them about 5 times, and made sure the connections are all right and secure. I also went out and bought a new IDE cable tonight, which didn't fix the problem. I just don't get it. How could it just stop working like that? And is there anything I can do to fix it.

Specs are in sig below. Help!:frown:

 

[bozo1]

I'd say your drive failed. I've found that for the most part, if the drive is going to die in the first few years, it'll do it in the first 15 days or so which is why I don't waste alot of time setting things up for at least a week or I exercise the drive by running a diag utility for 48 hours or so.

 

[Rebel7254]

I think you're right. no matter what IDE port I hook it into, the mobo won't recognize it.

 

[billyjak]

Are the jumpers set right.
I know on my WD the jumpers have to be set a certain way if only using 1 drive.
I had it happen to me I loaded winxp rebooted a couple of times and got the same message.
I changed the jumpers and it booted right up.
Check on segates sight if your not sure

 

[StraightPipe]

get disk utility form seagates site, to see if drive is really dead.

 

[Steven the Leech]

get disk utility form seagates site, to see if drive is really dead.


and do a low level format "write zero's" to it. I have done that to a few drives and they are still working, also a few that are still dead. May save you the hassle of having to rma the drive.