- Aug 29, 2004
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Hi,
I was wondering how one goes about determining whether a hard drive is defective. I just purchased a new Hitachi 7K250 250GB hard drive for my Abit NF7-S v2.0. However, the bios can't seem to detect the hard drive's specifics. When I connect it as a slave, the BIOS lists the name as a much of random characters (not model #s) and can provide no specifics about capacity. Windows XP doesn't see it either.
I tried just using it as a master, but that didn't work either so I assume the hard drive is bad. I think the cable is ok as I'm currently using the same cable with my old hard drive.
Right now, I'm assuming the drive is defective and am going to get a RMA, but I wanted to run it by people here as I'm worried I might have overlooked something.
Does anyone have any ideas? I appreciate any help. Thanks a lot.
I was wondering how one goes about determining whether a hard drive is defective. I just purchased a new Hitachi 7K250 250GB hard drive for my Abit NF7-S v2.0. However, the bios can't seem to detect the hard drive's specifics. When I connect it as a slave, the BIOS lists the name as a much of random characters (not model #s) and can provide no specifics about capacity. Windows XP doesn't see it either.
I tried just using it as a master, but that didn't work either so I assume the hard drive is bad. I think the cable is ok as I'm currently using the same cable with my old hard drive.
Right now, I'm assuming the drive is defective and am going to get a RMA, but I wanted to run it by people here as I'm worried I might have overlooked something.
Does anyone have any ideas? I appreciate any help. Thanks a lot.