Old poweredge 600sc not recognizing New HD

Hey guys,

I am in need of some serious help. We recently got new servers and instead of seeing the old ones being thrown away I wanted to salvage at least one and get it working with a HDD and put  a copy of windows that I owned (I was ordered to physically destroy the one we worked on before) so that I could keep it around or donate it to one of a  bunch of charities I had in my area that wanted some. I thought it may be easy, but now it’s frustrating.

 I had an old machine, a compaq, with a 160 GB Seagate IDE HD with XP OEM loaded on it. Before formatting it and all, I wanted to see if the Dell would recognize. And sure enough, nothing is recognized. I switched it from cable select to all the other settings and back, and still nothing. I am unable to flash the bios, for I have no working floppy and I don't think I can flash the bios from a USB.

So, in essence I am at a pure loss of knowledge. What exactly do I need to do to get the PowerEdge to recognize the HD? I am afraid to format the HDD and try to install windows, and find it not being recognized. I was told about needing to maybe change a few settings, but have no idea what and am limited. Also, I placed a new power supply in , since I felt that the old 170 W wasn’t strong enough (it also didn’t work before the PSU switch) and lately it has been beeping twice a little after the bios screen loads and the indication that it failed to see the HD. However, when I go to setup utility it says that there is a “Hard Drive” and it knows that its 160 GB but doesn’t recognize anything beyond that.

Again, I strongly appreciate any assistance with this or refrence to a guide on how to make sure a HDD is going to be recognized.

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