hawk7371 wrote:
Hi all, I have a Dell Dimension 2400 and am trying to install a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9, Ultra ATA, 120 gig hard drive. I have searched these forums but to no avail. The bios will recongized the drive at it's full capacity but after each reboot it states no drive recognized and will not go into Windows XP. I have tried every conceivable jumper setting but nothing works. Now I can add this same drive as a slave and all works well. This is how I formatted the drive and installed Windows XP. Any help will be appreciated.
Don't know how you searched the forums w/o finding the answer.
Jumper ONLY to Cable Select, no other setting.
Did you turn the drive on in bios?
Installing XP when it's the slave would make it be a drive E...
When you installed XP on the drive, did you boot to the CD or stick it in with the computer already in Windows?
@hawk7371 wrote:
Hi all, I have a Dell Dimension 2400 and am trying to install a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9, Ultra ATA, 120 gig hard drive. I have searched these forums but to no avail. The bios will recongized the drive at it's full capacity but after each reboot it states no drive recognized and will not go into Windows XP. I have tried every conceivable jumper setting but nothing works. Now I can add this same drive as a slave and all works well. This is how I formatted the drive and installed Windows XP. Any help will be appreciated.
Don't know how you searched the forums w/o finding the answer.
Jumper ONLY to Cable Select, no other setting.
Did you turn the drive on in bios?
Installing XP when it's the slave would make it be a drive E...
When you installed XP on the drive, did you boot to the CD or stick it in with the computer already in Windows?
Honestly I did search these forums. I have tried the jumper setting you suggested before posting in these forums. The drive is turned on and is recognized within the bios settings. I installed Windows XP by booting to the CD. I have just taken the hard drive out and placed it as a master in another computer with Cable Select jumper settings and all is well but bring it back to my Dell and it does not boot to XP. Pasess the bios test, two beeps and them tells me the drive is not recognized. Installing XP whenit's a slave made it a D: but take the other hard drive out, change jumper settings and it should be recognized as drive C: as it did when I tested it in another computer...
That's also covered in many posts... Once you boot in another PC, you can kiss it goodbye for booting in yours. You can't move back and forth. Stop changing jumper settings. Cable select. Period. Put it on the end of the cable with the other drive disconnected, boot to the XP CD, remove all partitions, make a new one(s), format it, install XP, then drivers beginning with chipset.
If that doesn't get it recognized on reboot we'll need to reset nvram and that will do it.
@hawk7371 wrote:
Hi all, I have a Dell Dimension 2400 and am trying to install a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9, Ultra ATA, 120 gig hard drive. I have searched these forums but to no avail. The bios will recongized the drive at it's full capacity but after each reboot it states no drive recognized and will not go into Windows XP. I have tried every conceivable jumper setting but nothing works. Now I can add this same drive as a slave and all works well. This is how I formatted the drive and installed Windows XP. Any help will be appreciated.
Don't know how you searched the forums w/o finding the answer.
Jumper ONLY to Cable Select, no other setting.
Did you turn the drive on in bios?
Installing XP when it's the slave would make it be a drive E...
When you installed XP on the drive, did you boot to the CD or stick it in with the computer already in Windows?
Honestly I did search these forums. I have tried the jumper setting you suggested before posting in these forums. The drive is turned on and is recognized within the bios settings. I installed Windows XP by booting to the CD. I have just taken the hard drive out and placed it as a master in another computer with Cable Select jumper settings and all is well but bring it back to my Dell and it does not boot to XP. Pasess the bios test, two beeps and them tells me the drive is not recognized. Installing XP whenit's a slave made it a D: but take the other hard drive out, change jumper settings and it should be recognized as drive C: as it did when I tested it in another computer...
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Honestly I did search these forums. I have tried the jumper setting you suggested before posting in these forums. The drive is turned on and is recognized within the bios settings. I installed Windows XP by booting to the CD. I have just taken the hard drive out and placed it as a master in another computer with Cable Select jumper settings and all is well but bring it back to my Dell and it does not boot to XP. Pasess the bios test, two beeps and them tells me the drive is not recognized. Installing XP whenit's a slave made it a D: but take the other hard drive out, change jumper settings and it should be recognized as drive C: as it did when I tested it in another computer...
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