[andrewmillspaug]

Hi, Everyone , I have a Maxtor 250GB Hard drive, And it had linux on it but know I want to put windows xp back on the hard drive, but everytime I connact it, It says in Bios that the drive is unknow, and it dose not show up on my windows xp, Why I want to put this hard drive in is because Im runing a 40.0 GB Hard Drive, and i can not program because it says not enough space. Please help me. thanks everyone.

 

[spunk.funk]

What is the make and model # of your computer? What type of Maxtor drive is it? Is it a SATA HDD or is it an IDE (PATA/Ultra ATA)? If IDE, how do you have the jumper pin set? is there another drive on the same grey wide IDE cable?
If the drive is an IDE drive, the jumper pin should be set to CS (Cable Select) If there is another drive on the same cable, the Maxtor drives jumper should be set to Master, and the Maxtor drive should be at the end of the cable not in the middle. The other drive would be in the middle and the jumper set to Slave. Move the drive around and choose different Jumper pin settings. If a SATA drive, there are other considerations. If the Bios doesn't recognize the drive, then it has failed.

 

[andrewmillspaug]

Hi,and thanks for the replay. Maxtor DiamondMax 10 Model: 6L250R0 Internal HardDive and the SN Number Is: L59WEN5G, I have tryed all the above and windows xp still dose not see it and the BIOS still says unknown. It finds the hardrive but calles it unknown I have downloaded DBan and the drive dose not show on there ether in less theres another software that will let me make it work, Because when I Had linux on it, It worked just fine tell now when I put it in the computer, then one day I formated it and thats when it started saying unknown. Did i Rickit, Oh and my computer is A Dell Dimension 2400

 

[spunk.funk]

So the HDD is recognized in the Bios, it just says Unknown? Restart the computer and press F12 and run the Dell Diagnostics.
If this fails, remove the HDD and attach it to another computer with a USB Adapter or putting it into a USB Enclosure. go to Disk Management and see if you can initialize the drive and format it.
Or you can try mini tool partition manager and do it with that program.