HDD Problem

[demon8991]

I recently reinstalled windows for a friend formatting both of his hardrives, and installing on the bigger one (previously on the smaller one) but now the smaller drive doesnt show up at all?

It spins up but doesnt detect, ive tried it in two machines and same in both, what am i doing wrong?

 

[rpstewart]

Is the drive showing in:

1) The system BIOS?
2) Device Manager?
3) Disk Management? (right click My Computer & pick Manage)

 

[demon8991]

None of them which is weird.

 

[rpstewart]

OK, need a bit more info on the board that the drive is being connected to - make, model, which interface is being used (SATA/IDE), how the cables are connected, that sort of thing.

 

[demon8991]

Tis an 40gb WD IDE drive with an asrock mobo i think, its always worked in the computer but now doesnt.

I have tried it in some old P3 computer which i want to use it as a primary drive for but it doesnt detect in the and obviously doesnt boot or load the windows xp installation.

 

[rpstewart]

Have you checked the master/slave jumper positions are correct for how you have the drive connected?

 

[demon8991]

Well i set it to cable select it didnt do anything it was previously set it slave, and i put it as master and cable select when i tried it in the other computer as the default drive.

 

[demon8991]

Any ideas anyone?

 

[ByteJuggler]

Don't use Cable Select. Set it to master or slave explicitly. You should prefer not to use Cable Select because you can only use CS if you have a CS compliant IDE cable and that tends to be uncertain at best. Most are not (especially older cables/motherboards.) Thus, if you're at all unsure about whether the cable you're using is CS compliant, then you should not use the CS setting. Needless to say, using CS setting with a non-CS IDE cable does not work.

 

[demon8991]

Right i have tried it in all of the different settings now in 3 different computers and i cant get it to be found in windows, yet it is detected in the bios. Is there any else i can do?