Help! Hard Drive not detected!

delahunt · Joined: 10 Jun 2006 Posts: 1

I need a help on this. I wanted to add a hard drive to my system (it’s not new but was functional at the place where I obtained it), and it is just not detected in Windows. I placed it on a free IDE socket (there are four on motherboard and two are in use). I can see no disk icon in explorer nor is it listed in Disk Management tool. Any idea why this might be?

blaum · Joined: 10 Jun 2006 Posts: 1

More possible reasons for this. You should investigate some more. If it is not listed in Disk Manager, Windows obviously doesn’t see it. You should go to BIOS and observe if it is listed. This could be…hmm bad IDE connector or cable, or inappropriate master\slave settings, or it might be a very old hard drive that doesn’t fit your motherboards IDE standard. If it is not listed in BIOS, try to run autodetect feature, it might detect. Many things should cause this…Are you sure that hard disk is functional?

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