03-09-2004, 04:45 PM
Mrs MvP is the drive correctly connected? You may well ahve the cable the wrong way around OR the jumpers may be incorrectly set on the drive. It should be set up as a master and not a slave. The cable connecting the hard drive to the mother boards will usually have a red stripe on one side. That side should be connected to the side of the hard drive connector with a pin labelled "1"
If the BIOS says the HD cannot be found then using FDISK, FORMAt or any other software wont help. You will need to make sure that the BIOS is set up to auto detect the drive too.
As a final thought if the laptop is pretty old then it may not recognise the drive because of its capacity.
If the BIOS says the HD cannot be found then using FDISK, FORMAt or any other software wont help. You will need to make sure that the BIOS is set up to auto detect the drive too.
As a final thought if the laptop is pretty old then it may not recognise the drive because of its capacity.