Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Unusual concrete drive problem?

I've lately been given a newish rock-hard drive (Samsung sp2514n 250gb).

Problem is although it has be recognized contained by the BIOS and POST I can't get an OS to accept it's there (tried winxp vista and dos).

I enjoy wired it in correctly and hold tried every cable and pin combination.

Dead disk or am I missing something?

Expert answers only please.

Unusual concrete drive problem?

friendly administrative tools, computer management. Disk tools. Intitialize the drive consequently format it.
It probably needs partitioning and formatting. If you enjoy a Win98 start up disk, boot to that and run Fdisk or boot to your Windows CD and run it from in attendance to setup a new divider on it. Then Windows should recognise it and will be able to format it.
It can't be a insensible disk if the BIOS recognises it.



When you next boot press the Esc switch to see what the BIOS says. Does it say-so Primary Master? I'm assuming that it is an P-ATA disk rather than a Serial-ATA disk.
You will probably hold to run fdisk a program on the win 98 setup and delete the present partition. If you enjoy a floppy drive it is easy, a moment ago boot from a win 98 startup disk and type fdisk then choose delete fence. If you only enjoy a win 98 cd then boot from it and close the installation eyeshade then type cd\win98 afterwards type fdisk

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