What do you get when you type FDISK?

Does it see the Hard Drive?  It may be formatted in NTFS.

Larry Peterson

-----Original Message-----
From: Brendon Schafer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 8:13 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Cannot get DOS to recognise HD

First do the usual, namely check BIOS. Make sure the HDD is correctly
recognised.

Have you opend the case? Make sure that the IDE ribbon is attached
correctly.
Red line goes on the side of pin 1. You probably need a magnifying glass to
read it
on the mobo, but pin 1 on the HDD is usually on the side of the power
outlet.

Make sure the power is connected correctly (almost impossible to get wrong,
but yellow usually
goes to the end).

Is this the only drive in the system. Remove all the jumpers on the drive.
This
sets the drive to Stand-Alone.

If this hasn't helped, perhaps you could give more details, especially about
the mobo
and any error messages (POST) you get while you boot. If you get no errors
while you boot maybe
you should check your BIOS settings (there is a setting where the machine
will stop on
all errors/no errors/FDD errors. Set this to all errors. (I can't check
where in the BIOS at the
moment for obvious reasons:-))

Good luck
Brendon



> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Josh Caulder
> Sent: 13 May 2002 01:57
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Cannot get DOS to recognise HD
>
>
> I bought a used harddrive(WD 20GB UATA 100/7200rpm) from a
> friend and cannot get DOS to cahange from A:> to C:> for me
> to be able to format it. Im using a win98SE boot disk and it
> worked the first time i tried it, but i done something wrong
> and shut down to start over and now this is the problem im
> having. Please help.....i'm stumped....
>
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