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New Hard Drive not detected?

Posted: 10-20-2003, 12:02 AM
Fred
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I installed a new Seagate 40gig HD.
After setting the CMOS to Auto detect Primary and setting
to LBA. Save & Exit/
Freezes on boot, Says: Dectecting IDE Primary Master....
[press F4 to skip]
-----
Before this happened I tried to a clean install of WIN-XP
and did a Partition on the drive. Now when I look in
trouble shooting, it says to useFDISK or other
partitioning utility to format the drive./ When I try to
do that, it cannot, because XP format was not done in FAT.
((What can I do now??)) Can some one please help,
desperate and frustrated ;(
Note: I only have the one hard drive installed.
and a new Video card installed at same time.

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Fred
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New Hard Drive not detected?
Posted: 10-20-2003, 03:26 AM
Later on, I decided to go into CMOS and do IDD HDD Auto
Detection.
Primary Master = NONE
Primary Slave = User

What does this mean ????

>-----Original Message-----
>I installed a new Seagate 40gig HD.
>After setting the CMOS to Auto detect Primary and
setting
>to LBA. Save & Exit/
>Freezes on boot, Says: Dectecting IDE Primary Master....
>[press F4 to skip]
>-----
>Before this happened I tried to a clean install of WIN-
XP
>and did a Partition on the drive. Now when I look in
>trouble shooting, it says to useFDISK or other
>partitioning utility to format the drive./ When I try to
>do that, it cannot, because XP format was not done in
FAT.
>((What can I do now??)) Can some one please help,
>desperate and frustrated ;(
>Note: I only have the one hard drive installed.
>and a new Video card installed at same time.
>
>.
>
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D.Currie
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Re: New Hard Drive not detected?
Posted: 10-20-2003, 06:32 AM
If the motherboard isn't detecting the drive, Windows surely won't. Are the
jumpers and cables correct?

"Fred" <tango2@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:04df01c396b9$f93b8710$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Later on, I decided to go into CMOS and do IDD HDD Auto
> Detection.
> Primary Master = NONE
> Primary Slave = User
>
> What does this mean ????
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I installed a new Seagate 40gig HD.
> >After setting the CMOS to Auto detect Primary and
> setting
> >to LBA. Save & Exit/
> >Freezes on boot, Says: Dectecting IDE Primary Master....
> >[press F4 to skip]
> >-----
> >Before this happened I tried to a clean install of WIN-
> XP
> >and did a Partition on the drive. Now when I look in
> >trouble shooting, it says to useFDISK or other
> >partitioning utility to format the drive./ When I try to
> >do that, it cannot, because XP format was not done in
> FAT.
> >((What can I do now??)) Can some one please help,
> >desperate and frustrated ;(
> >Note: I only have the one hard drive installed.
> >and a new Video card installed at same time.
> >
> >.
> >

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fred
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Re: New Hard Drive not detected?
Posted: 10-21-2003, 01:25 AM
Windows is not installed, its brand new , going to do a
Windows XP install.
Jumpers , tried Master, then Limit , now going to try all
the rest and see if any will work.

>-----Original Message-----
>If the motherboard isn't detecting the drive, Windows
surely won't. Are the
>jumpers and cables correct?
>
>"Fred" <tango2@shaw.ca> wrote in message
>news:04df01c396b9$f93b8710$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> Later on, I decided to go into CMOS and do IDD HDD Auto
>> Detection.
>> Primary Master = NONE
>> Primary Slave = User
>>
>> What does this mean ????
>>
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >I installed a new Seagate 40gig HD.
>> >After setting the CMOS to Auto detect Primary and
>> setting
>> >to LBA. Save & Exit/
>> >Freezes on boot, Says: Dectecting IDE Primary
Master....
>> >[press F4 to skip]
>> >-----
>> >Before this happened I tried to a clean install of
WIN-
>> XP
>> >and did a Partition on the drive. Now when I look in
>> >trouble shooting, it says to useFDISK or other
>> >partitioning utility to format the drive./ When I try
to
>> >do that, it cannot, because XP format was not done in
>> FAT.
>> >((What can I do now??)) Can some one please help,
>> >desperate and frustrated ;(
>> >Note: I only have the one hard drive installed.
>> >and a new Video card installed at same time.
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>
>
>.
>
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fred
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Re: New Hard Drive not detected?
Posted: 10-21-2003, 01:25 AM
Windows is not installed, its brand new , going to do a
Windows XP install.
Jumpers , tried Master, then Limit , now going to try all
the rest and see if any will work.

>-----Original Message-----
>If the motherboard isn't detecting the drive, Windows
surely won't. Are the
>jumpers and cables correct?
>
>"Fred" <tango2@shaw.ca> wrote in message
>news:04df01c396b9$f93b8710$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> Later on, I decided to go into CMOS and do IDD HDD Auto
>> Detection.
>> Primary Master = NONE
>> Primary Slave = User
>>
>> What does this mean ????
>>
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >I installed a new Seagate 40gig HD.
>> >After setting the CMOS to Auto detect Primary and
>> setting
>> >to LBA. Save & Exit/
>> >Freezes on boot, Says: Dectecting IDE Primary
Master....
>> >[press F4 to skip]
>> >-----
>> >Before this happened I tried to a clean install of
WIN-
>> XP
>> >and did a Partition on the drive. Now when I look in
>> >trouble shooting, it says to useFDISK or other
>> >partitioning utility to format the drive./ When I try
to
>> >do that, it cannot, because XP format was not done in
>> FAT.
>> >((What can I do now??)) Can some one please help,
>> >desperate and frustrated ;(
>> >Note: I only have the one hard drive installed.
>> >and a new Video card installed at same time.
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>
>
>.
>
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