Probs with new Hard Drive!

[Idoxash]

Yos eh anyway having some probs with my new Hard Drive I need to know whats wrong if anyone out there knows ok any way the specs and probs.

The Hard Drive is a Seagate Barracuda ATA III Model ST320414A 20 gigs

other stats are
7200 rpm
ata 100
8.1 ms


My bios see the drive but no matter what jumper or ide " 0, 1" slave or master this drive comes up with boot failed sys halted

I even try to boot it off a drive that does work useing win98

thats all it says i can put in a boot up disk my 98 rom and still get nothing but boot failed.

Whats the matter and how can i fix it.........is this drive crap and needs rma eh...i hope not...thanks thoe

 

[Idoxash]

hmm anyone, anything, ah....... any computer hmm.

 

[BCYL]

Did u create a partition and format it?

 

[Idoxash]

haha i would if it let me dude....no start up disk of any kind but the one i made with seagates tools on it works
and the seagate thing had like this dos stuff that i was unable to make work also......look like the drive is crap i gussee oh well 100 bucks gone again gusse WD for me are the best they always do work. thanks thoe.

 

[BCYL]

well u can still RMA the drive, so u wont really lose ur money... good luck though....

 

[Cosmo3]

First off check the jumpers on the hard drive and make sure they are set to master, Then set your bios up to boot off of the floppy first and then the hard drive. Next fdisk your hard drive and then format it with the format c:/s command and it should work. If it reads the drive in the bios this should work for you. Also make sure the new drive is the only thing on your ide cable while setting it up.

 

[tjames214]

I'm guessing because I'm stupid. Is the hard drive powered? check to make sure the power cable the hard drive is connected to is working make sure all the hardware settings are correct. cables are plugged in right, jumpers are set. Next I guess you gotta boot from a floppy or cd-rom and format the drive and install an OS on it. other than that I have no idea.

p.s. The IDE cables are plugged in fine so the BIOS sees it.

edited: oh yea regarding the same error message even if you put in a cdrom or floppy disk.. you'll have to set up your bootup sequence in the bios to boot to the floppy or cdrom first if you want to boot from them. then you can fix it back to boot to your hard drive first later if you want. when or if you fix it later, i'd just leave it the same... and clear the cdrom tray and floppy tray of any disks if you don't wanna boot from floppy/cdrom