Hard Drive Problems

aznboi12321 · 05-02-2005, 05:46 PM

My mom brought a computer home from her company and i took the hard drive outta that to install it into my other comp(this was a while ago). Now i put back in so i can install windows and i succesfully copied the setup files then rebooted and said found no operating system. I looked at the BIOS and it didnt even recognize my hdd!!! so i tried to install Mandrake 10.1 community but it still wont work! plz help!

bulliver · 05-02-2005, 05:53 PM

Check the jumper settings. You may have it on slave when it should be master. If it is CS (cable select) change it to master.

J.W. · 05-02-2005, 07:09 PM

I'll bet bulliver's advice will solve the problem. If not, also make sure that all cables are properly seated, and if you are getting a "No operating system found" error, it could be caused by leaving a non-system floppy disk in the drive. -- J.W.

aznboi12321 · 05-03-2005, 07:58 AM

how do i check the jumpre cables? I kno about the primary and slave stuff (their definitions at least) but how do i set the hard drive to primary?

Chromezero · 05-03-2005, 08:22 AM

On the back of the HD, next to where you plug the IDE cable in, you'll find a very small jumper. They're typically black plastic pieces, about 1/16 of an inch wide. It's just a jumper from one pin to another. Alot of HD's will have a diagram on top of them showing which pins need to be jumpered for Master/Slave.

aznboi12321 · 05-03-2005, 08:27 AM

okey dokey thnx for the advice, ill og check it out when ii get home(in computer class rite now!!!)