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October 21, 2007 at 05:06 PM
rjforster

Unrecognized hard drive

by rjforster . Updated 18 years, 8 months ago

I am working on a Dell Dimension 2400 with 2 GBytes of RAM and a Celeron 2.4 GHz processor. I was trying to install a 500 GByte Seagate Barracuda hard drive but it will only be recognized if I set it up as a slave. I can format it,install Windows XP Pro and see it in the BIOS or Windows as long as I have it setup as a slave. If I try to hook it up as a singe or naster drive it will not recognize it in BIOS. In fact if it is setup as a master drive neither drive is recognized in BIOS. I have tried configuring it as Cable Select and Master but nothing works.

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