suggestion... Leave the jumpers on "cable select" (don't chose master or slave) and be sure to make the os bootable from the drive you want, or disconnect all other drives and check if the newly installed disk boots by it self. Are you using Windows or Linux?
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:19 PM, eos <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have just bought a new 1tb Western digital sata hard drive > [WD10EADS] to use as my secondary drive. It was bought to replace a > 320gb sata seagate drive that i was using but is now too small. The > problem i am having is that the new drive is being detected at bios > start-up [ie the drive number is showing] but the system will not boot > up. The system is booting from a different drive however. I have tried > changing the jumper settings and the only time the system will boot up > is when the jumper is on the 2,3 setting but the drive number does not > come up during startup and is not accessible in 'disk manage'. My > motherboard is a pata system but i have a sata to ide card which > worked perfectly with the segate drive. I don't understand how one > works and not the other. The jumper settings cannot be copied either > as the segate drive uses 4pins whereas the WD one uses 8. I'm running > XP home as my system. > > > > -- --------------------------------------- Miran O. Phantom Design Labs --------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
