Installed XP on a drive on my pc at home..Took the freshly installed HDD to another pc and hooked it up..It wont boot up and in the bios says the HDD is not installed..It worked fine on mine at home and booted up straight away, but it wont even recognise the drive on the other pc....any ideas ??
2007-07-01 00:23:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
just too be clear..Its a clean install with a proper copy of XP...i would have just put the XP CD ROM straight into the machine and booted up from the cd drive and dod a clean install then but it wont boot up if i say boot from cd
2007-07-01 00:28:15 · update #1
Thanks guys...have already done all of those and it still wouldnt "see" the drive.Everything is set to Auto detect in the bios but still nothing.
2007-07-01 00:30:01 · update #2
Drive not installed in the bios...thats the problem ..
2007-07-01 00:31:44 · update #3
Possibly could be the harddrive jumper needs to be set to master, slave, ect. I would try moving the little jumper pin, usually next to the cable that connects to the mother board.
2007-07-01 00:27:21 · answer #1 · answered by John K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's a SATA raid drive you should have the drivers on a floppy which you need to install for it to see the drive. Yours obviously isn't the sata drive so make sure it's jumpered to master and that all cables are in properley then go into bios auto detect hd it should now find the drive. Good Luck
2007-07-04 08:37:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
See to it that
1) your jumper settings are fine and also be sure whether you have set the HDD as active when doing some partition work.
2) Also if your BIOS frimware is old it may not recognize the newer HDD install new frimware from your motherboard manufacturer.
3) A second possibility is another drive connected to the same channel may have problems.
2007-07-01 01:10:53 · answer #3 · answered by Sasi K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, is it a SATA drive or not? Check the jumper settings, it may be that they are set wrong but your first PC simply managed to figure it out but the second PC didn't.
Plus when you boot the second PC, go into BIOS (hit del on satartup) and check to see if the HDD is recognised by BIOS.
2007-07-01 00:29:18 · answer #4 · answered by bruvvamoff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make sure it is snapped in tightly. Read the instructions and make sure the hard disc fits snugly in the compartment. I had trouble instaling RAM once because it wasn't snugly fit. Sometimes there are hooks to make it tight (I've never installed a hard disc). Also make sure it is hooked upto the motherboard. There is a big wire that connects it with the rest of the computer, make sure that is connected as well and its tight. I've never had to install a hard drive before, it's just a suggestion
2007-07-01 00:27:56 · answer #5 · answered by Pablo A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Open bios and do an auto detect on the harddrive. save and exit, then reboot.
2007-07-01 00:28:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋