I currently have a 200GB Western Digital as my master and a 80GB Seagate as my slave. I took out the 80 slave and swapped in the 300GB Western Digital as my slave. Both drives had correct jumper settings (as given on the hard drives). The computer would not start up and would just give this message strike f1 to try again, or f2 to enter system bios. When I went in the system bios the computer did not recognize either of the hard drives that were installed. But when I removed the 300GB slave, it started right up. Do I perhaps have to update my bios? My computer is a Dell and is less than a year old. I also considered buying a $40 external hard drive enclosure kit which hooks up through USB 2.0 and runs the hard drive as a plug and play storage device. Does this sound like something that would work?
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you have to have the hard drives set to cable select.to get the dell to see the 300 gb hard drive.dells bois will only see up to 260 and is the new hard drive formated.if not go to western digital website download disk setup programs
why would you need the drives set to cable select???? they should work perfectly fine as a master and slave. infact cable select is usually what causes this kind of problem in my experience
Studio Comp: AMD Athlon XP 3200+ OC ~ 2.35GHz runs at 40 celcius idle and 48 under stress (aerocool GT1000 really works!), Asrock K7VT4A , 1024MB Dual Channel DDR 400, MSI Nvidia FX5200 128MB OC ~ 600MHz mem 350MHz core,80GB SATA + 200GB SATA + 120GB IDE, 7.1 Channel Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum EX sound and midi interface. 19" Sony SDM-HS95 TFT monitor - sweeet
Comp2: AMD Sempron 2400+ OC ~ 2.0GHz (Stable), Asrock K7S41GX, 512MB DDR 333, Onboard Graphics, 40GB Maxtor IDE
set of monitors on the way soon :P
Google is your friend... WorkComp: LAPTOP, intel celeron D 2.4GHz, 256MB DDR, 20GB hd. NO SCREEN IT WAS SAWN OFF :S (bag of crap)
because a lot of cheap dells motherboard wont go higher then 260 gig total ,unless it has sata.and it is a lot easyer for the hard drives to tell the bois what they are.And most of the dells i work on are set at cable select from factory.
I am using Windows XP Home with SP2. I bought the hard drive at Best Buy. How would I know if it is formatted and how could I format it if it isn't already?
@rch0621..."download disk setup programs"
Which program do I need? I see these two...
Data Lifeguard Tools 11 & Data Lifeguard Diagnostic
...or is it something different?
Do this. Go to start...then control panel. Switch to classic view. Go to adminstrative tools. Then computer management. The disk management. There ya should see ya drive and be able to right click it and select format to format the drive.:>
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