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| Thread ID: 69957 | 2006-06-17 22:36:00 | PC will not detect HDD | annied8 (4928) | Press F1 |
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| 463929 | 2006-06-17 22:36:00 | Hi. My old HDD died and a friend gave me a Seagate one that they were using as a slave in their HP Pavillion PC. They formatted it in their PC but my PC (not HP Pavillion) will not detect it. I get the "Intel inside" screen it will not boot from my XP Pro CD. Have tried all the 'F" keys but cannot get anywhere. I downloaded a "Diskette Creater for Windows" from the Seagate site and ran it but PC still will not detect HDD. Any suggestion. P.S. The jumper is in the correct position for a Master. Am not a PC guru but know enough to get me out of trouble but this one has me stumped. | annied8 (4928) | ||
| 463930 | 2006-06-17 22:43:00 | You have the jumper as Master, so check the cable is connected to the drive correctly, if its slightly skewed at one end for instance, then the BIOS won't find it. Go into the BIOS and check that it sees it on Primary Master. To boot from the CD, you then need to set the Boot Order in the BIOS so that CD is first. Then when you restart you will see a message "Press any key to boot from CD....". |
pctek (84) | ||
| 463931 | 2006-06-17 23:19:00 | What size was your old harddrive? What size is the Seagate? Sometimes, older machines wont pick up newer larger harddrives (for example if the old drive was a 10GB and the new one is 80GB, there may be an issue, fixable by a jumper in the back or a BIOS update) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 463932 | 2006-06-18 03:46:00 | My old HDD was the same make and size. Cannot access BIOS but when I boot, it checks the CD drive but will not boot up Win XP disk. Jumper is in correct place. | annied8 (4928) | ||
| 463933 | 2006-06-18 05:59:00 | Did you check the IDE cable was properly seated as suggested by pctek? You may even have a bad cable (IDE).. tried swapping it with another one? |
Myth (110) | ||
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