snugglepuffle

i've tried CS, SLAVE and MASTER settings. doesnt like any of them at all Is there a jumper to limit the HDD capacity? Try that incase your bios is having problems with the large drive. Still seems like it would atleast recognize it though... yea there is, and i just tried that and it's had the same problem. its just ticking over like it's trying to read the drive but something isnt letting it inside. i'm proberly going to ring up the company i purchased it from first thing in the morning and send send it back. i'm 99% sure its a faulty HDD and not a failure on the human side of things. jus

i've tried CS, SLAVE and MASTER settings. doesnt like any of them at all

strangly there was no disk with it. i kinda figured this would be just a basic "switch the jumpers and replace the old slave drive" job but its been making me scratch my head for the best part of the last 15 hours since i got it delivered

i ordered a new Seagate 7200.10rpm ST3500630A 500GB ATA hard drive [and it arrived this morning. i tried to install it and finally got it connected and everything. booted up the pc and its not recognising the new HDD at all and to make it worse the whole computer grinds to near enough a halt on searching for IDE devices for the best part of 3 mins i disconnected it and rebooted up and it's now recognising the master i have inside and loaded up first time with no halting and before the monitor can properly bring a signal up the XP loading screen is already up. its not recognising the master Dri