snugglepuffle Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 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 minsi 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 Drive at all when it comes to loading the OS, yet when i reboot without the new hdd connected it finds it and is started up before the monitor is switched on.bios doesnt find the hdd in existance either and i have changed the jumpers over and taken them out and tried every combination i could. still nothing is working properly. the bios is set to the latest version that is available for my motherboard & it does have a LBA option in it qhich is activated and the last time i attmpted a few hours ago i went into the bios, and actually did a IDE HDD search on all the IDE cables. [1st + 2nd masters & slaves]i'm starting to wonder if theres something faulty with the drive itselfit sounds like it's trying to tick over [like a clicking sound] when i plugged in the new hard drive and turned it on and it was searching for IDE devices on startup but it felt like it was struggling to read the actual HDD itself and i just tried the hard drive in another computer and still not picking it up. if anyone has any suggestions of ideas i could try before i arrange to have it sent back in the morning it would be apprieciatedmy pc spec is :amd sempron 2600+, 512mb ddr ram, master 80GB hdd, 256mb Nvidea FX5200 gpu Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubba Bob Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 Im trying to remember what the special procedures are for installing larger drives...Stick the DISC that came with the drive into the computer and boot up with it. Run through the drive installation. Itll tell you step by step what to do. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
snugglepuffle Posted December 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 Im trying to remember what the special procedures are for installing larger drives...Stick the DISC that came with the drive into the computer and boot up with it. Run through the drive installation. Itll tell you step by step what to do.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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 it sounds as if the drive may be bad. Have you tried both CS and SLAVE settings? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
snugglepuffle Posted December 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 it sounds as if the drive may be bad. Have you tried both CS and SLAVE settings?i've tried CS, SLAVE and MASTER settings. doesnt like any of them at all Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubba Bob Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 it sounds as if the drive may be bad. Have you tried both CS and SLAVE settings?i've tried CS, SLAVE and MASTER settings. doesnt like any of them at allIs 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... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sceeter32 Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 It sound like the new hard drive is a dud. I would send it back and exchange it for one that works.Sceeter32 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
snugglepuffle Posted December 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 it sounds as if the drive may be bad. Have you tried both CS and SLAVE settings?i've tried CS, SLAVE and MASTER settings. doesnt like any of them at allIs 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. just the worst time of year to have to do that imo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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