December 26, 200421 yr My main HD is a 80GB WD HD with windowsXP sp2 and the Drive in question its a slave Drive, right now its on my usb 2.0/firewire external encloser, that the only place I can see it in windowsXP. I have tried the HD in the system also but it won't boot to windows I also tried westen digital data lifeguard 11 in both windows and DOS and nothing. Anyone here has any help for me? Thanks.I am trying to make my WD HD 250GB work in windowsXP sp2 and I can't seem to get it to come up on windows disk management . I can see the drive in device Manager. Disk ManagementDevice Manager
December 26, 200421 yr Are the jumper setting right on the drive?I have tried the HD in the system also but it won't boot to windowsMy guess is that you are putting the drive in with the factoy jumper settings (Master) and that is conflicting with your other Master drive. With WD drives you will have to set the 80GB as a master and the 250GB as a slave. This is only if you are putting those two on the same channel, if yo are putting the 250GB on the same channel as a CDrom drive you will still need to jumper the 250GB as a slave and the CD as a master.
December 26, 200421 yr If your using a controller card you need to install the drivers.If not, make sure that the drive on the end is set to master and the one in the middle is set to slave.
December 26, 200421 yr Is the drive or the full size of the drive displayed in the bios?, you may need to check for a bios update to support the larger drives.
December 26, 200421 yr You should check if there's any new BIOS version abailable for your MBO..I think this could fix your problem with large HDD..
December 28, 200421 yr WD hard drives are picky with the jumper settings. Try them both on CS (Cable Select) and see if that helps.
December 28, 200421 yr WD hard drives are picky with the jumper settings. Try them both on CS (Cable Select) and see if that helps.Yeah that may be the solution to my problem posted here as well I'll give it a try.
December 28, 200421 yr maybe the bios doesen't support that large of a hard drive,maybe update the bios to the latest and see what happens
December 28, 200421 yr Nah good with the cable select option updated the bios but may need to update the IAA as mentioned in other post.EDIT: No good with the IAA upgrade,didn't wanna say it but may be time for a Mobo upgrade guess thats how it is?
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