HD not found

Possible causes:

1. Bad CMOS battery

2. Bad HD controller.

3. Bad ribbon cable, or isn't plugged in well.

Put the drive in another computer, and see if it works there.

Just because the HD is new to begin with doesn't mean it can't be faulty.

Case in point ... about 4 years ago I bought a Toshiba DVD drive which came with a RealMagic decorder card. After a few days, the DVD playback always had green lines running through it (similar to effects in The Matrix). After dealing with tech support, we came to the conclusion that the decoder card itself was bad even though it was brand new. A replacement was shipped, and there have been no problems since then.

A few other things you might check ... the cable, try testing the HD with a known good cable in another computer, try a BIOS update, reinstall the IDE drivers for your MB, change the jumper settings from cable select if you are using that setting, if this is the "C:" drive, make sure it is master on IDE 0.

Hope this helps.

If this doesn't, could we get a little more info on your system setup.

-Dave

About 80% of the time,this is a bad IDE cable.
About 15% of the time it is a warning of an incipent board failure on the Hard Drive itself,
(the little circuit board on the bottom of the drive), or a platter problem in the Hard Drive.
The easiest, cheapest, and first test is to replace the IDE cable and see what happens.
If this does not help, it is definitely time for a full system backup, before proceeding further.
Regards, Chris

Check that you have the correct IDE cable. There are two types so check that the one you are using is compatible with your drive. Is this your only HD? If not, are you running it on the same channel? Is it master/slave? If the cables are correct andyou have it as a second device on a channel just check your jumper settings.

HTH