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Western Digital Hard Drive Problem
Hi Group,
I bought a 100GB Hard Drive and installed it in my computer as a slave drive (details below). The PC took a long time in booting up, as if it was trying to recognize the new hardware, however when it finally booted the new hardware still was not recognized, I run the "scan for hardware changes", although it recognized there was a new disk drive, the computer gets stuck and does not istall the drivers. By the way it makes unusual noises (eg. ticking noises etc). HARD DRIVE DETAILS: 100 GB Western Digital Hard Drive WD1000 Model: WD1000JB - 32CWE0 S/N: WMA9P1798270 COMPUTER DETAILS: Pentium 3 Packard Bell Windows XP SP2 501 MHz, 384 MB of RAM ----------------------------- M Trujillo |
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If the hard drive is making noises return it, it's bad.
"Alberto Trujillo" wrote in message ... Hi Group, I bought a 100GB Hard Drive and installed it in my computer as a slave drive (details below). The PC took a long time in booting up, as if it was trying to recognize the new hardware, however when it finally booted the new hardware still was not recognized, I run the "scan for hardware changes", although it recognized there was a new disk drive, the computer gets stuck and does not istall the drivers. By the way it makes unusual noises (eg. ticking noises etc). HARD DRIVE DETAILS: 100 GB Western Digital Hard Drive WD1000 Model: WD1000JB - 32CWE0 S/N: WMA9P1798270 COMPUTER DETAILS: Pentium 3 Packard Bell Windows XP SP2 501 MHz, 384 MB of RAM ----------------------------- M Trujillo |
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"Alberto Trujillo" wrote in message
... Hi Group, I bought a 100GB Hard Drive and installed it in my computer as a slave drive (details below). The PC took a long time in booting up, as if it was trying to recognize the new hardware, however when it finally booted the new hardware still was not recognized, I run the "scan for hardware changes", although it recognized there was a new disk drive, the computer gets stuck and does not istall the drivers. By the way it makes unusual noises (eg. ticking noises etc). HARD DRIVE DETAILS: 100 GB Western Digital Hard Drive WD1000 Model: WD1000JB - 32CWE0 S/N: WMA9P1798270 COMPUTER DETAILS: Pentium 3 Packard Bell Windows XP SP2 501 MHz, 384 MB of RAM Could be a broken drive. Could be a BIOS problem. Could be a jumper problem... The drive could be faulty - do you have another PC you could try it in? A friends PC maybe? Pentium 3 is quite old now - perhaps it can't recognise the drive because of its size. There have been a number of size 'barriers' in hard disk technology. You should consider a BIOS update - check the Packard website for your model. You have installed the drive as a slave - how did you make it a slave? You need to make sure the jumper on the master drive is set to Master and the new drive to Slave. You also need to make sure they are on the correct port on the cable - Master on the first connector and slave on the second (end) connector. |
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On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:38:13 -0000, "GT"
wrote: "Alberto Trujillo" wrote in message ... Hi Group, I bought a 100GB Hard Drive and installed it in my computer as a slave drive (details below). The PC took a long time in booting up, as if it was trying to recognize the new hardware, however when it finally booted the new hardware still was not recognized, I run the "scan for hardware changes", although it recognized there was a new disk drive, the computer gets stuck and does not istall the drivers. By the way it makes unusual noises (eg. ticking noises etc). HARD DRIVE DETAILS: 100 GB Western Digital Hard Drive WD1000 Model: WD1000JB - 32CWE0 S/N: WMA9P1798270 COMPUTER DETAILS: Pentium 3 Packard Bell Windows XP SP2 501 MHz, 384 MB of RAM Could be a broken drive. Could be a BIOS problem. Could be a jumper problem... The drive could be faulty - do you have another PC you could try it in? A friends PC maybe? Pentium 3 is quite old now - perhaps it can't recognise the drive because of its size. There have been a number of size 'barriers' in hard disk technology. You should consider a BIOS update - check the Packard website for your model. You have installed the drive as a slave - how did you make it a slave? You need to make sure the jumper on the master drive is set to Master and the new drive to Slave. You also need to make sure they are on the correct port on the cable - Master on the first connector and slave on the second (end) connector. WD drives have three jumper positions. Master, master with slave, slave. Make sure both drives are jumpered correctly. |
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