"Lost" Hard Drive Completed

[Wul]

WD are usually good drives, how is it set up cable select or master/slave and is it a 40 or 80 conductor cable?

Try a new cable and check it on the primary and secondary channels in case its a cable or motherboard problem.

[Roger The Hat]

It's a 40 cable, no jumper in his machine, jumpered Master/Slave in mine, which was heavily upgraded, with new cables, less than a month ago.

My original drive works fine.

[Wul]

Have you tried the drive in your machine?

cable select as you likely know only works with an 80 conductor cable, well 79 conductor cable really...

[Wul]

The drive should be jumpered in his machine.

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?p_cats=123&p_cv=1.123&p_pv=&p_prods=&p_search_text=jumper%2Bsettings&p_new_search=1

That is a WD link about their drives.

[Roger The Hat]

The only thing I haven't tried is slaving it to my drive, in my machine.

I've got a couple of soundcards with a break-out box, so there physically isn't room (and I'm not disturbing them!).

The bin, the bin.  

[Roger The Hat]

I checked the link, Wul, and if you look under ten pin, for single drive, it shows no jumper

As I said, in this configuration, it was working fine on his machine earlier in the week!

[Wul]

Just get 24 of these puppies.....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs&fmt=22

[jc26red]

  should have added to the youtube clip, don't try this at home folks!

but fun to watch!... she says looking around and seeing 4 spare drives lying around  

[Roger The Hat]

Okay, I've finally got the drive working; I'll just give you the summary.

I've found that XP will load, and is now running normally on the original machine, after reformatting the drive to FAT32.

XP would Not load, or run normally, on any machine, under NTFS.

I have no idea why.

Thanks to all those who scratched their heads for my friend's benefit.