I need help my computer won't recognize that there is a hard drive in there. I had windows xp home edition and then I put in the windows xp media center edition to change but while it's setting up it says push enter and then when I do it says it can't find a hard drive. Before all of this I was swiching a hard drive to find out what was on it and now I put my regular hard drive in it and now it won't recognize it. HELP PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-12-31 07:42:21 · 6 answers · asked by Cody Combs 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
It doesn't matter if you have the drive set to master, slave or French poodle. If it's the only one in the computer, windows will find it.
You just need to recheck your connections and make sure none of the cables are plugged in backwards or off one pin.
2006-12-31 11:35:17 · answer #1 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey Dude,
Do you know about Primary, Secondary, Master and Slave?
You have two IDE channels Primary and secondary, or IDE 0 and IDE 1. Your IDE 0 is primary!
One each channel you can have two hard drives. Master and Slave. There are 3 ways to set these hard drives, Master, Slave, Cable Select. If you set the jumper pins to Master, this drive will be the Master, and you must set the other drive, if any, to be the Slave.
Now, cable select. If your drive is jumpered to C/S or cable select, you must put the drive AT THE END of the ribbon cable, otherwise it will be slave.
You either have to set BOTH drives manually or leave BOTH drives at C/S. You can not mix the two.
Now, if you are 1000000% sure you got this correct, you may be dealing with some sort of off brand hard disk controller. It isn't that your system doesn't recognize the drives, physically, it is that Windows OS install doesn't have a driver for the hard disk controller.
If this is the case, I doubt it, you have to find out what controller you have and download the driver to a disk. When asked, during the install process, if there are any other drivers you wish to load, you have to say "YES" and point it to that floppy. Then your controller will work and the install will procede.
Good Luck.
Tom
2006-12-31 15:53:18 · answer #2 · answered by Cafetom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be that your harddrive is not set to master. This is done with pins on the harddrive itself. Also, make sure the harddrive is being recognized in your bios settings
2006-12-31 16:20:25 · answer #3 · answered by Crystaline 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Open your case and check all of the connections. Make sure there is power to the drive. Make sure the ribbon cables are all secure and correctly plugged in.
2006-12-31 15:47:24 · answer #4 · answered by Kokopelli 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i might have a solution not sure what kind of computer u have but go into your Bios Find Drives click that find "sata operation" and put it On RAid Autodetect/ATA Save and exit then try and see if it recognizes it
2006-12-31 15:53:40 · answer #5 · answered by Brian g 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make sure that the pin in the back of the hard drive is placed in the master slot....not the slave
2006-12-31 15:52:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋