Hard Drive not recognized

Thorn · 02-14-2008, 07:41 PM

I have 4 hard drives, three of which have bee used on my computer. Now it does not recognize them. I checked the jumpers, reset bios, nothing. They are IDE drives.

brinks · 02-14-2008, 08:08 PM

Does it even detect in the bios?

sPlAtOiD · 02-14-2008, 10:23 PM

More infor would be nice.Like system info and such.

Thorn · 02-15-2008, 01:47 PM

No, it doesn't detect it in the BIOS. It just says unknown device.

Motheboard: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS, Version: 1.10 A02
Ram: 256k
Computer: Dell Dimension 4300

sPlAtOiD · 02-15-2008, 11:50 PM

Have you tried one at a time? Are these drives formatted? Do they have partitions?

S0ULphIRE · 02-16-2008, 02:03 AM

If they aren't even detected in BIOS, try checking the jumper settings. If you have the master and the slave both set to master, they won't be recognised.
Like sPlAtOiD ses, try one drive at a time. Also, if you have another drive you know is working, try installing that (to rule out other hardware failure).

Thorn · 02-16-2008, 10:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sPlAtOiD

Have you tried one at a time? Are these drives formatted? Do they have partitions?

Yes. Kind of. Kind of.

They are all formatted, and all have partitions, but only one has a working operating system on it, the other one got a corrupted version of XP. The one that has the working one also has that problem. Now that I got the new disk to fix it, it stopped recognizing it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by S0ULphIRE

Also, if you have another drive you know is working, try installing that (to rule out other hardware failure).

I did that. It won't detect anything through the BIOS, ewxcept the stock cd drive and floppy that came with my computer.

S0ULphIRE · 02-16-2008, 05:34 PM

Try resetting the bios, and changing the IDE cables. If that doesn't work, I'd say its a hardware problem with the motherboard. Get it replaced if its under warranty.

Thorn · 02-16-2008, 06:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by S0ULphIRE

Try resetting the bios, and changing the IDE cables. If that doesn't work, I'd say its a hardware problem with the motherboard. Get it replaced if its under warranty.

Did that. The mobo isn't under warrenty.

Thanks everyone, but with all the problems I've been having lately, I'm just going to purchase a new computer.

sPlAtOiD · 02-16-2008, 10:44 PM

If its detecting the cdrom unhook it and put the hard drive on that ribben cable. If you still get nothing you have something wrong with your drives. I'm not sure what but something isnt right with them.

02-14-2008, 07:41 PM	#1 (permalink)
Thorn True Techie Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 189	Hard Drive not recognized I have 4 hard drives, three of which have bee used on my computer. Now it does not recognize them. I checked the jumpers, reset bios, nothing. They are IDE drives.

02-14-2008, 08:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
brinks Ultra Techie Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 695	Re: Hard Drive not recognized Does it even detect in the bios?

02-14-2008, 10:23 PM	#3 (permalink)
sPlAtOiD Monster Techie Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 1,612	Re: Hard Drive not recognized More infor would be nice.Like system info and such. __________________ MSI K8NEO4 Ultra PCI Express x16: BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768 Mb AMD DualCore AMD Opteron 185, 2600 MHz (13 x 200) Memory Corsair2046 MB (DDR SDRAM) Dual Channel 320 Western Digital IDE Drive Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller Windows XP Por SP2

02-15-2008, 01:47 PM	#4 (permalink)
Thorn True Techie Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 189	Re: Hard Drive not recognized No, it doesn't detect it in the BIOS. It just says unknown device. Motheboard: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS, Version: 1.10 A02 Ram: 256k Computer: Dell Dimension 4300 Last edited by Thorn; 02-15-2008 at 01:51 PM.

02-15-2008, 11:50 PM	#5 (permalink)
sPlAtOiD Monster Techie Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 1,612	Re: Hard Drive not recognized Have you tried one at a time? Are these drives formatted? Do they have partitions? __________________ MSI K8NEO4 Ultra PCI Express x16: BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768 Mb AMD DualCore AMD Opteron 185, 2600 MHz (13 x 200) Memory Corsair2046 MB (DDR SDRAM) Dual Channel 320 Western Digital IDE Drive Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller Windows XP Por SP2

02-16-2008, 02:03 AM	#6 (permalink)
S0ULphIRE Ultra Techie Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Perth, Australia Posts: 746	Re: Hard Drive not recognized If they aren't even detected in BIOS, try checking the jumper settings. If you have the master and the slave both set to master, they won't be recognised. Like sPlAtOiD ses, try one drive at a time. Also, if you have another drive you know is working, try installing that (to rule out other hardware failure). __________________ Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling? I am 75% addicted to Counterstrike. What about you?

02-16-2008, 05:34 PM	#8 (permalink)
S0ULphIRE Ultra Techie Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Perth, Australia Posts: 746	Re: Hard Drive not recognized Try resetting the bios, and changing the IDE cables. If that doesn't work, I'd say its a hardware problem with the motherboard. Get it replaced if its under warranty. __________________ Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling? I am 75% addicted to Counterstrike. What about you?

02-16-2008, 10:44 PM	#10 (permalink)
sPlAtOiD Monster Techie Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 1,612	Re: Hard Drive not recognized If its detecting the cdrom unhook it and put the hard drive on that ribben cable. If you still get nothing you have something wrong with your drives. I'm not sure what but something isnt right with them. __________________ MSI K8NEO4 Ultra PCI Express x16: BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768 Mb AMD DualCore AMD Opteron 185, 2600 MHz (13 x 200) Memory Corsair2046 MB (DDR SDRAM) Dual Channel 320 Western Digital IDE Drive Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller Windows XP Por SP2

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