WD Caviar 2500KS - trouble setting it up

MastermindUK · 19 May 2006 at 17:48

Hi, I've just got a Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II, and I haven't been able to get it running in my system.

What I've currently got is two IDE drives and, one 80GB the other 40GB, master and slave respectively, on an MSI K8N Neo2.

Now, I don't have any spare jumpers so I've tried taking out the 40GB drive and using the jumper off that to force the new drive into SataI mode.

When I started up it took ages to go from 'Detecting Drives' to showing the Drive table and then went into the BIOS, even though I didn't press Delete.

I haven't been able to start it up with only the SATA drive, it says Invalid partition table.

Any help would be nice.

Oh, my floppy drive doesn't seem to be working either, if it means anything.

Thanks.

MastermindUK · 19 May 2006 at 18:11

I thought I would need the jumper because the MoBo is not SATA-II. I'll try without.

MastermindUK · 20 May 2006 at 10:47

messiah khan said:
I just plugged mine in and it was ready to go after partitioning it and formating. I didn't need to touch any jumpers at all. Thats on a MSI K8N Diamond.

Right again. Thanks for the help. Not sure why it doesn't need the jumper - I'm pretty sure the motherboard doesn't have SATAII :confused:

MastermindUK · 20 May 2006 at 16:48

Not sure. Two drives show up, both between 40 and 50 degrees.