Hello
I recently obtained a Dell optiplex GX240 and intended to use it to replace my current pc .in my current PC I had two HDDS one 20gb western digital and one seagate 120gb however as the gx240 only has space for one HDD I cloned all the information from the 20gb (master) onto the 120gb using norton ghost 2003 .
when I put the HDD into the gx240 I get the following message “primary hard drive 0 not found” then “strike f1 to retry or f2 to enter setup”
I went into bios to check it was setup correctly primary 0 set to auto showing as “unknown device” primary 1 set to off secondary 0 set to auto showing my cd rom correctly secondary 1 set to off(so I believe that is correct)
I checked the jumpers they are all set to cable select (the HDD uses a 80 wire IDE cable which is already on the motherboard)
I tried pressing ALT+F then ALT+B -auto IDE configuration still doesn’t recognize HDD
I tested other HDDS in the GX240 a fujitsu MPE3084AE (8.45GB0),fujitsu MPF3204AH (20.49gb),western digital WD400BB caviar (40gb) all of these were recognized and worked.
I tested my seagate 120gb ST3120020A in another pc and it was recognized so it is certainly not a dead drive .
I checked all IDE cables tried it on the cd drives IDE cable but still not recognized .I have reflashed bios by removing battery and changing jumper on motherboard .
SO I really am stumped and do not know what to do My GX240 is using bios revision A01 .The hard drive is ultra ATA
is there a chance the gx240 does not recognize drives bigger than 40gb ?