Unable to detect Hard Drive

cowbox · 01-04-2008, 03:47 PM

Okay, I have two 60GB ATA HDD in RAID, and I just got a new 250GB ATA HDD. It is of course on a seperate ribbon cable, and when I put it to cable select I get a NTLDR is missing error message on boot up.

However, when I put it on slave, the computer boots into Windows XP but the drive is not detected. I cannot see it in disk management or BIOS.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

dai · 01-04-2008, 07:55 PM

forget cable select stick with master and slave
use an 80 wire ide cable
blue
grey
black plugs
if it's the only drive on the cable put it on the end black plug jumpered as master

Tumbleweed36 · 01-05-2008, 04:27 AM

What is the brand name of the hard drive, and what else is on the same ribbon cable?

01-04-2008, 03:47 PM	#1 (permalink)
cowbox Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1 OS: Windows XP	Unable to detect Hard Drive Okay, I have two 60GB ATA HDD in RAID, and I just got a new 250GB ATA HDD. It is of course on a seperate ribbon cable, and when I put it to cable select I get a NTLDR is missing error message on boot up. However, when I put it on slave, the computer boots into Windows XP but the drive is not detected. I cannot see it in disk management or BIOS. What am I doing wrong? Thanks

01-04-2008, 07:55 PM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 53,771 OS: vista 32x 64x ultimate retail	Re: Unable to detect Hard Drive forget cable select stick with master and slave use an 80 wire ide cable blue grey black plugs if it's the only drive on the cable put it on the end black plug jumpered as master __________________

01-05-2008, 04:27 AM	#3 (permalink)
Tumbleweed36 Asst Manager Hardware Join Date: May 2005 Location: USA Posts: 18,066 OS: XP Professional	Re: Unable to detect Hard Drive What is the brand name of the hard drive, and what else is on the same ribbon cable? __________________ ---------- I don't receive email notifications of replies to subscribed threads. (Internet provider policy) Therefore, if I don't respond to your post within 24 hours, please send me a reminder PM and include the link to your thread.