Have you installed the jumper "Master/Slave" of this HDD in the correct
position, that does not conflict with the position of CD-ROM drive at
the same ribbon cable?
If this HDD is the only HDD in the system -- it has to be connected to
the end of the cable of the first IDE channel, and set as Master, while
CD-ROM on the same cable has to be set as Slave.
If it is the only HDD on the cable -- it has to be set as Master in most
cases,
or, if it is Western Digital drive, as Single (if there is no such
position -- this jumper has to be removed at all).
--
Mikhail Zhilin
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
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Please reply to the newsgroups only.
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:45:39 +0000, HJobe71h
wrote:
I just recently put a brand new 40gb hard drive into a relatives
computer. Everything seems to be installed correctly but I am having a
problem installing windows onto that new hard drive. I hope someone out
there can help me. First of all, I can't open the CDROM drive (either
one, even have an Acer CDWR) and as far as I know, when you use the
floppy boot disk, it will locate the drivers for the reg. cdrom and
allow you to use it. My problem is this.. I put the floppy in, load it
with windows 98 support and it goes through the steps of trying to
start the installation process such as recognizing the hardware.
Eventually, it comes to a screen where it says that the computer can't
recognize (doesn't contain) valid Fat or Fat32 partition, so it
suggests running fdisk from the command prompt. It then takes me to the
command prompt where I type in FDISK next to the A: drive command. It
says "no fixed disks present" when I hit enter. So I type in C: and it
goes to that drive, I type in FDISK and it says the same thing, "no
fixed disks present." Now as you can see, I am stuck in a rock and a
hard place. And since it can't go through the motions of loading
everything, it won't open the cd drives which means I am limited to the
floppy drive currently. Anyone have ANY suggestions on how to stop this
problem and move onward in the installation process? I am to my wits
ends with ideas. I have tried everything I know to pull it out of this
but nothing seems to work, I always end up with the same result. Hope
you can help! Either respond or email to
Thank you!!!