Not necessarily the easiest way, but the simplest is to put the drives into
a known-good machine and check 'em out.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"Chuck" wrote in message
...
Could be. No idea how to check. My PC won't complete a boot with the old
HDD.
Powers up OK tho'.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

So maybe it wasn't the HDD that went bad, but rather the controller? Or
perhaps the power isn't good and that caused the old drive to go bad and
prevents the new one from behaving?

Just thinking out loud...

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"Chuck" wrote in message
...
It came with a CD, but the PC won't get past the initial memory check.
This
is a brand new blank drive, and there is not other drive in the PC.
The
one I
had was bad, and this is a replacement. It won't even boot with the
Startup
disk so I can get CDROM support.
???

"Ben Myers" wrote:

Seagate has installation tools available for download.

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/...s/discwiz.html

Ben

"Chuck" wrote in message
...
I am trying to install a new replacement HDD in my boy's PC (PIII
333MHz,
Win98--yeah, it's old). I have a Seagate 80GB replacement HDD.
After a
couple
of tries and some cable swaps, I got the machine to boot back up
from
the
motherboard, but it will not detect the new HDD. It won't even
boot
from my
Windows staretup disk.
I have all the BIOS settings as per the instructions with the
drive.
BUT,
when I try to get the PC to auto-detect the HDD, it stalls at
"Auto-detecting
new primary master" and that's it. I can't even back out of it; it
completely
freezes and I have to power the PC off.
Any ideas?
Thanks. :-|