[bpelowski]

I bought a new Seagate PATA drive for my PC and started up the software that came with it, shut down my machine, added the new drive and when I started it up I got a blank screen. The computer made a grinding and whiney sound like it was trying to boot from the CD drive but I read on the Seagate site that this sound could actually be the drive working. Unless I missed it the set up didn't say anything about having a cd to boot from.I tried to unhook the new drive which I had set for a slave, adjusted jumpers and all back to original hard drive and restarted and still ran into the same problem. So now my PC won't work at all and I want to puke. Can someone help?Here's the drive: http://www.seagate.c...keting/detail/1,1081,712,00.html

[PsychoticRelapse]

On a new HDD you need to format it first. What is the main function of this HDD? Is it going to be a slave or master. Either way, it has to be formatted. Do this; If you have another HDD that has windows on it. Set the jumper to SLAVE on the new HDD, install it. Boot computer. Get into the BIOS and see if it is detected. (Make sure that the computer is going to boot off of the HDD with Windows on it). If it is, hit F10. When windows boots up, Right-click on "My Computer" select Manage. In the Left task pane select "Disk Management" Look to the right now and you might see the drive lsited. If you do, Right-Click on the long retangular area. Then select "Format". That's it!

[bpelowski]

[quote name='PsychoticRelapse']On a new HDD you need to format it first. What is the main function of this HDD? Is it going to be a slave or master. Either way, it has to be formatted. Do this; If you have another HDD that has windows on it. Set the jumper to SLAVE on the new HDD, install it. Boot computer. Get into the BIOS and see if it is detected. (Make sure that the computer is going to boot off of the HDD with Windows on it). If it is, hit F10. When windows boots up, Right-click on "My Computer" select Manage. In the Left task pane select "Disk Management" Look to the right now and you might see the drive lsited. If you do, Right-Click on the long retangular area. Then select "Format". That's it!Thanks. But I can't even get to BIOS. When I start up the PC after installing the new drives all I get is a black screen.

[PsychoticRelapse]

So you don't have windows installed on either HDD, right?

[bpelowski]

[quote name='PsychoticRelapse']So you don't have windows installed on either HDD, right?Windows is on the old drive. It was working fine. I just wanted to add a second drive. Now when I tried to just rehook up the original drive w windows on it, the thing won't boot up. I just get a black screen. Doesn't make any sense as it worked fine before I started this project and I didn't do anything to the drive when I was installing the other one.

[bpelowski]

OK, I was looking online and found a #for seagate tech support, I worked with a guy on the phone and got it to work.What was wrong? Nothing.My PC just took a really long time for BIOS to read/locate/whatever it does when I turned on the PC. The guy on the phone said that was the longest he ever had a drive take to boot up. Guess I should have waited a lot longer.Thanks for the help.

[PsychoticRelapse]

CMOS musta got confused...LOL. Anyways, What about the new HDD? Do you have that hooked up and runnin' alright?

[bpelowski]

[quote name='PsychoticRelapse']CMOS musta got confused...LOL. Anyways, What about the new HDD? Do you have that hooked up and runnin' alright?Yep, everything is working great. Thx!

[PsychoticRelapse]

Beautiful! Hope everything works out in the future. I am now through with this thread.

[dawizzard]

ok.... did ya try to look at ur power supply??? if there is not enough wattage... then there is a no go...heheheh had that problem b4.... and thought my mobo was toast... but the PS was not rated for the parts that i was tryin to run..check it out