I suspect it's not jumpered right. If you used it in a friend's computer, it's probably set to slave instead of master. Mansoor Butt wrote: > Hello all, I have wrote before about my Seagate hard disk failing. I bought > a new 3.2 Western digital HD. My computer bios detected the disk (although > after quite a while) but gives a hdc failure massage when the system boots. > I took it to my freinds computer, their it worked just fine, I partitioned > it and installed win98 there but my comp. again gave the same 'primary hdc > failure' on startup. The PCBUILD web site always needs good submissions. If you would like to contribute to the website, send any hardware tech tips or hardware reviews to: [log in to unmask]