| Post ID |
Timestamp |
Content |
User |
| 448913 |
2006-04-23 22:29:00 |
I bought a Seagate Barracuda IDE 160GB HDD 7200rpm 2mb cache for $119 from xtreme systems on 88 cook road (new shop) since I was their 1st customer they gave me a free backpack. i put the harddrive in there and went on a date for the day. the harddrive seemed ok. i didn't bump it or anything but when i installed it as a slave to my other barracude 40gb IDE hard drive. it doesn't work.....1st i put it in to slave plug but had it on master mode for jumpers. i didnt realise this cos no manual! however the online one says slave mode has no jumpers on it. or to remove them. so i did. however in the bios now it detects it as a screwed up name/numer with lots of u u u u or etc. and when i boot windows up it fails. asks me to go into bios options or continue. when i do it appears in windows as recognised but as a removable disk (E:) like a usb drive or something. its unformatted according to windows (XP) and so i formatted it in windows. boom. failed at 99%. tried in dos with windows xp cd. boom didn't go past 99%. now im stuck wondering what the heck is going on and what to do... please help!!!!!!!!! cheers. james. |
jamesyboi (6579) |
| 448914 |
2006-04-23 22:33:00 |
www.seagate.com |
jamesyboi (6579) |
| 448915 |
2006-04-23 23:00:00 |
Take it back. Get it replaced. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) |
| 448916 |
2006-04-24 01:27:00 |
... i read somewhere that it will try to partition itself as D drive. i alredy have a virtual partition called D drive. maybe there is some conflict here? |
jamesyboi (6579) |
| 448917 |
2006-04-24 01:28:00 |
also read that the newer harddrive likes to be thy master in the house of the pc |
jamesyboi (6579) |
| 448918 |
2006-04-24 03:03:00 |
Just run seatools desktop (www.seagate.com) and see what it has to say.
I've encountered heaps of DOA stuff :annoyed: |
gibler (49) |
| 448919 |
2006-04-24 09:22:00 |
:cool: yup. the 160GB Bar wanted to be the master.he doesn't like being a slave to my ageing 40GB bar... .tsk tsk... *reinstalls windows - hmm wheres my crack CD? lol jk |
jamesyboi (6579) |
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