[obscuredhavoc]

Oh man, oh man. Issues galore with this Dell i'm attempting to fix, to replace an emachine computer that WILL NOT BOOT For crap. I've posted about the emachine.. and after trying everything. I could get it to boot... ONCE.. And then I'd have to hard reset the bios again.. Pull the battery out for about an hour. wait. put it back in, and then it'd boot again. On boot, the explorer.exe process would be crashed, i'd have to shut that down, manually restart it... Blahblahblabhlah BUNCH OF ISSUES!


ANYWAY! I pulled the HD from that computer, and was going to throw it into the Dell, to see if I can start trying to weed out what's wrong with the other computer... I'm thinking the hD Might be infected with a stout virus.. I can't keep the other computer on long enough to tell...

Aight, my issue is this.

I got an old Dell Dimension 3000 laying in pieces on my hardwood floor... and I can get other hard drives to read in it, even get an operating system to boot, and such. No issues.. But when I try to put this... Seagate Barracuda 7200.9
160GB harddrive in, it will not detect it, at all. Pulled up the bios, planning on inputting everything manually into it... But I can't seem to find the option to do it... I can change the "Master drive" from ... "Auto" to "Off" and that's it.
I'm curious if there's a way to know if the bios is compatabile with this hard drive... if there's a way to find out if it is, or isn't.. Or just something I'm completely lacking intelligence on figuring this thing out. Suuuriously need this computer up with this hard drive. I can still access the drive from my computer... But I'm worried that if the HD Is infected.. IF it would infect my other HD's... and I don't want that to happen. I curreently run No antivirus. I tend to avoid virus's pretty easily, and very rarely actually get hit with them. and when I do, it's usually pretty simple for me to remove them because I catch them pretty instantly..

Anyway. Sorry for the long post. Please help if you can. : )

[DoubleHelix]

You can't take a hard drive with Windows installed on one computer and put it in another and have it boot up. Windows just doesn't play well like that.

[obscuredhavoc]

sorry for the time it took to respond. Naw, not like that. It doesn't even detect the hard drive in the BIOS. Tried with another hard drive I have, and I have the same issue, this time it was a Seagate 80gb hard drive I was attempting to put in there, but have the same issues with the BIOS not detecting the drive at all.

[oldcrazyman]

Try changing the connection cable

[obscuredhavoc]

wow didn't think of that. ><

Just tried, to no avail, found an older 6gb hard drive.. and just got it to recognize on the bios... but I seriously don't want to have to put win 98 on this thing... Or even stack four 8gb hard drives in it..

[oldcrazyman]

Again your wrong

[oldcrazyman]

check your jumper on the hard drive. Make sure if you are using two are more that one is set up as a master an the other as a slave.

[obscuredhavoc]

i only have one hd hooked up right now, default setting for the jumper pin for the 8gb, no pin for a single drive. For the one I actually WANT to put in there, the 80gb seagate barracuda, i have the jumper set for a master. but that still doesn't detect.

The 8gb is detected, but the larger drive won't detect.
I'm only hooking up one HD at a time, right now.
Is there any way to check the compatibilty with the HD and the BIOS/Motherboard?

[oldcrazyman]

Did you formatted the drive correctly. U know you must first do an fdisk before formatting.