i am trying to install my old hardrive in a new pc but its not recognising it on my computer, what am i doing wrong, i have treated it as a slave but still nothing can u please help ta
2006-09-24 21:03:44 · 7 answers · asked by johnny 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
this depend greatly on the operrating system. size of drive integrity of the drive. . check power cords and ribbon cables and the pins on the drive. then use a software like partition magic 8.0 to verify. if still this does'nt work buy a IDE/USB cable from www.compusa.com for about 30 bucks and hook it up as an external flash drive. then run norton disk doctor on it
2006-09-24 21:07:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-01 08:21:45 · answer #2 · answered by wardwell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are few things you can check.
Is the BIOS setting correct? Make sure it can recognize the old harddrive. And double check if the power cable and the IDE cable are connect correctly. And if you put the old harddrive back to the old computer, does it still work?
2006-09-24 21:07:03 · answer #3 · answered by jrichard377 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Configure your CMOS to Autodetect and see if the system will find and recognize it. I'm not really sure but if your old hard drive is formatted to FAT-16 or FAT-32 and you current boot HDD is NTFS, there might be a problem. I myself have two mounted HDD and one is NTFS and the other is FAT-32 and they both work fine (FAT-32 is the secondary drive but both are bootable) at Autodetect.
2006-09-24 21:08:35 · answer #4 · answered by Bummerang 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok make sure ur MAIN drive is set to MASTER...then make sure ur second drive is set to SLAVE on the jumpers on the drive..then going into bios make sure that the second drive is AUTO rather then OFF or NO ... if thats not working... best other answer is to set the second drive to cable select and let the BIOS make it a SLAVE rather then u setting the jumper...
2006-09-24 21:06:04 · answer #5 · answered by Kami 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you set jumper switch in back side of the HDD?
the jumper switch is very small and black plastic tip to bridge a couple of pins. You need to set it to use your HDD as slave one.
2006-09-24 21:19:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you been into your BIOS and set the drives to auto?
2006-09-24 21:22:10 · answer #7 · answered by crockettdjb 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋