How to detect the hardrive?

Check if the BIOS is able to detect it then only you would be able to detect it using any utility. Alternatively you can check for the jumper settings also. Try making it slave.

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Checked the Bios Setting and check whether the Hard drive is recognizing or not -
Check the Boot sequence
Check Boot from the CD Drive
Format the Hard drive
it will work

Floydage, some ribbons are different in the orentation of pin#1. try a differnent cable...but you said that you tried that right.? have you tried to make sure you have the latist BIOS. It could be this paticuler drive have a different bios it self...and yes drive's do have chip's and software in them. If nothing ells just load the OS to that drive anyway and than change the drive letters in windows.

the hard disk interface could be broken, open the hard disk case and use it as an internal hard disk as a slave in a computer to save your data

Does it show in the devices? If it is, check and see if it is disabled. If not, check the jumper settings on both drives, and check your bios settings.

http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/downloads/firmware/ http://atulchitnis.net/files/seagate.pdf follow indications carefully

Somewhere on the harddisk, you should be able to see a label indicating jumper settings. Check that the jumbers are set to slave sattings.

Its a master/slave problem. Put it to cable select mode
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/42470_hdd4.gif
Put the jumper to CS then reboot.

is the jumpers set correctly . to slave or try cable select

Hi,

The easiest way to upgrade from your old HD to the new 40Gb HD is to clone the old to the new. Do a google for "hard disk clone" freewares. Personally I use Partition Magic and have had very good results.

Hardware wise, you need to install the 40Gb as a slave to the old HD by connecting the same IDE cable as that of the old HD (you may have to remove your CD/DVD temporarily). You also have to temporarily remove the single jumper of the 40Gb to allocate it as a slave to the primary master (old HD). Plug in likewise the 4 wire power connector. On power up go to your CMOS/BIOS setup to verify that your PC autodetect the 40GB (you may have to do a manual detection). Boot your PC and go through the normal boot sequence. Thereafter download your clone software choice, install and run. Follow on screen instructions. You may need to reboot. After completion, use Windows Explorer to verify that everything has been copied. Power down, remove the old HD, relocate IDE cable connector of the old HD to the 40Gb, reconnect your CD/DVD, and place back the jumper of the 40Gb. On popwer up go again to your CMOS/BIOS to verify that the 40Gb & the CD are detected. Save & exit, reboot.

Hope this be of help/idea. Pls post back how things turned up or should you need additional information.

Good luck and kind regards.