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.

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