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Icy
03-30-2001, 06:16 AM
I recently bought a new hard drive for upgrading purposes. I orginaly had a 10GB Maxtor. I purchased both a 45GB Western Digital and 42GB Maxtor. Upon installation of either drive my BIOS will not detect them. I have already checked jumper settings and purchased an 80 pin Cable. Still neither will detect at boot up. I have changed my BIOS settings to all possible combinations hoping something at least would work. Both of these hard drives had preinstalled operating systems also.

I also tried setting them as slaves and booting to my original drive but still no luck.

I can get both drives to detect on other computers but not on my own. Does anybody have any ideas for me?



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Icy
03-30-2001, 06:22 AM
Sorry I thought I should include all my information.

I have a NEC FR520 motherboard with the Award 4.51 PG Bios and an Intel Celeron 433 processor.

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Randy_tx
03-30-2001, 10:04 AM
Western Digital hard drives are sometimes a bit cranky...try the WD drive set as Master (only drive-I think you pull the jumper off completely)on one channel and put other two drives on the other channel as mast. & slave....let us know. Messing with the hard drive jumpers is the only thing you haven't said you have tried.

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Icy
04-03-2001, 03:05 AM
I did try a few settings. Mainly with the maxtor, Both as a master, slave, and single but nothing seemed to work there. With the WD I never could find what the settings should be as anything but single. The model number was not listed on thier web site so I was out of luck there. I didn't search to hard as by this time I was frustrated and needed a break before I threw something lol.

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Paleo Pete
04-03-2001, 07:35 AM
You night be able to find the jumper settings at The Tech Page (http://www.thetechpage.com/cgi-bin/default.cgi) and if you'll post the model number of the drive we may be able to dig up something.

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Randy_tx
04-03-2001, 09:17 AM
Try the WD with NO jumpers on it at all and that might work esp if you put it with one of the cd's.

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baoluanle
04-16-2001, 03:09 AM
Did you try setting everything to "auto detect" and load up default settings in you bios ?
tjaymadison
04-16-2001, 09:37 AM
What are the "preinstalled operating systems"?

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Icy
04-27-2001, 02:24 AM
What I meant by a preinstalled OS is that I had already loaded windows to this drive before installation.

As of today I can't try anything because the drives are being used by my brother and they worked just fine for him. I should have them back in my posession shortly and I will try the advice given here. Thanks for the ideas and help.

I hope I can get at least one of them running soon.

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