hard drive not recognized

**rstokes** · November 8th, 2005, 06:29 PM

I have an e-3400 gateway and it has an IDE pci card. My hard drive failed completely, I have tried it in other machine and it didn't work. I got a new hard drive and a new IDE pci card and it now says it does not have a hard drive attached. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

**root** · November 9th, 2005, 04:57 AM

Maybe it'll help you:
http://members.cox.net/joemurphy/Hard%20Drive%20NR.htm

- is HDD spinning?
- check jumper settings (set master, slave or master only)
- disconnect other drivers on same IDE channel and do bios search
- connect to other IDE channel.
- old mothebroards only supports disks to 32GB, use special jumper or load special software (check HDD-manufacturer site)

**Guts3d** · November 9th, 2005, 06:47 AM

If it is a new hard drive, it will be " raw " and needs to be formatted before using it. Put it in another computer that is running Windows 2k or XP and right click on the " My Computer " icon, choose " Manage " and then choose " Disk Management ". You should see the drive there, right click on it and create a new partition. Good luck!

**slgrieb** · November 9th, 2005, 04:18 PM

Is the message you are seeing that says you have no hard drive being generated by the PCI controller's BIOS? If that's the case, try plugging the drive into the IDE controller on the motherboard and let us know what happens. Please post brand and model of controller and drive as well.