Seagate Hard Drive Problem

[Culley]

I recently purchased a 120GB hard drive from NewEgg. It's an Ultra-ATA Seagate drive. I am using this disk drive for extra storage in my PC.

I currently have two Western Digital drives installed. An 80GB (IDE) [C:] with the OS installed and a 37GB (IDE) [E:] for storage. Both of these drives function swimmingly.

However, the PC will not recognize the new Seagate.

I have removed the jumper completely, per Seagate, to put the drive in "slave" mode. I have the "gray" cable connected also.

Upon boot, Windows does not recognize any new hardware. I have even tried to add hardware manually... and Windows still cannot locate the drive.

I'm fairly sure the cables work, because I disconnected the E: drive and connected this new drive to those cables, but still nothing. I can hear the drive working when I connect the cables, so there is power going to it.

I'm thinking I have a faulty piece of hardware, however I have never used a Seagate Ultra ATA drive, so I may be missing something.

Thanks.

 

[Fern]

See HERE, ATA & IDE are the same thing.

First, Go into BIOS and see if the new HDD is recognized. If so, then I'm thinking it's a winXP thingy. Have seen the "cure" but can't remember (I don't use XP so don't pay much attention) You should/may be able to find by useing the search fucntion.

Which HDDs are which IDE channel and how are the WD HDDs jumpered? (don't mix cable select with regular jumpered HDDs)

You're using a 40 pin 80 wire cable on the new HDD right?

Fern

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: Culley
I recently purchased a 120GB hard drive from NewEgg. It's an Ultra-ATA Seagate drive. I am using this disk drive for extra storage in my PC.

I currently have two Western Digital drives installed. An 80GB (IDE) [C:] with the OS installed and a 37GB (IDE) [E:] for storage. Both of these drives function swimmingly.

However, the PC will not recognize the new Seagate.

I have removed the jumper completely, per Seagate, to put the drive in "slave" mode. I have the "gray" cable connected also.

Upon boot, Windows does not recognize any new hardware. I have even tried to add hardware manually... and Windows still cannot locate the drive.

I'm fairly sure the cables work, because I disconnected the E: drive and connected this new drive to those cables, but still nothing. I can hear the drive working when I connect the cables, so there is power going to it.

I'm thinking I have a faulty piece of hardware, however I have never used a Seagate Ultra ATA drive, so I may be missing something.

Thanks.

Not to be somber or anything... But there may be a chance it is simply uncompatable. A few drives are like that. It is not limited to Hard Drives, either. I remember that my WD would not be detected by one motherbard, but another detected it fine. This was serial ATA. Anyway, hopefully that is not the case, but it might indeed be.