I just went out and bought a new western digital EIDE Caviar SE 7200rpm 160 gig hard drive and when i put in to my emachines T1220 desktop without the internet pluged into it i get this message saying that a media errror has occured and it asks to check the cable and i don't know what that means, when the enternet is pluged in then i get this weird message and then it says no bootfile was found. I was wondering if my pc can handle a hard drive of that size and if so what can i do to fix this?
2006-12-30 08:36:17 · 4 answers · asked by Luxure 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Just use bootable Operating System CD (such as Windows XP). It will install OS along with bootfile on your harddisk.
2006-12-30 08:46:36 · answer #1 · answered by Talha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your Ethernet cable has nothing to do with the hard drive at this point. You evidently have the jumper setting wrong on your hard drive. Take it out and look between the power connector and the data cable, (the big wide flat one) and then on the front of the hard drive there will be a diagram of how the jumpers should be. Yours should be set to either "master" or "cable select" one you have the right settings it will recognize the drive. If you have your windows cd in the drive, it should start setup automatically.
2006-12-30 16:46:36 · answer #2 · answered by Roadman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hard drives have a master and slave setting on them. If you have two devices plugged into the same ribbon cable then one has to be set to master and the other has to be set to slave. The no boot file error is because there is no operating system on the new harddrive. You should boot from your old harddrive. You computer bios has an option to set up boot priority where you can switch this around. You get into bios when your computer is showing the company logo of whatever computer you have....or when it simply says press "somekey" to enter bios.
Western digital drives should come with a cd...if you boot from the cd you should be able to use the utility that will copy your old harddrive to your new one...if you don't want to use the old one anymore at all.
2006-12-30 16:41:23 · answer #3 · answered by Jordan Z 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
check the cable then try to format it and make new partisions
2006-12-30 16:38:25 · answer #4 · answered by U make me sick 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋