I wrote before about not installing to 2 drives on a P2B Motherboard. I
figured out that the one drive I was using a 40GB drive was no good. I put
in others and they worked fine. But I tried a WD 120GB drive and it would
not work either it started to boot and stuck where it said detecting HDD
Primary Master...[Press F4 to skip]
F4 doesn't work when it goess there it is set to auto in CMOS and it will
not recognize it when i do a check.
Any ideas? My 120 couldn't be screwed also could it they are different
companies and sizes 120-40GB Western Digital 120 & Seagate Barracuda 40GB
Thanks Bruce

One of the drives has to be a master and the other a slave? The Windows CD
is bootable, so that is how the installation and format of your hard drive
will be accomplished.

"Me2Ewe" <blawrence@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:O0tYsQ0DGHA.1472@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>I wrote before about not installing to 2 drives on a P2B Motherboard. I
>figured out that the one drive I was using a 40GB drive was no good. I put
>in others and they worked fine. But I tried a WD 120GB drive and it would
>not work either it started to boot and stuck where it said detecting HDD
>Primary Master...[Press F4 to skip]
> F4 doesn't work when it goess there it is set to auto in CMOS and it will
> not recognize it when i do a check.
> Any ideas? My 120 couldn't be screwed also could it they are different
> companies and sizes 120-40GB Western Digital 120 & Seagate Barracuda 40GB
> Thanks Bruce
>

Go to HD MFG website and download HD Diagnostics!!

"Me2Ewe" wrote:

> I wrote before about not installing to 2 drives on a P2B Motherboard. I
> figured out that the one drive I was using a 40GB drive was no good. I put
> in others and they worked fine. But I tried a WD 120GB drive and it would
> not work either it started to boot and stuck where it said detecting HDD
> Primary Master...[Press F4 to skip]
> F4 doesn't work when it goess there it is set to auto in CMOS and it will
> not recognize it when i do a check.
> Any ideas? My 120 couldn't be screwed also could it they are different
> companies and sizes 120-40GB Western Digital 120 & Seagate Barracuda 40GB
> Thanks Bruce
>
>
>

<HD MFG> That is Hard Drive right?
It happened with two different Hard drives Western Digital & Seagate
Barracuda... Could it be a CMOS Setting not right? How would I check that?
Thanx for reply
B
"Dixonian69" <Dixonian69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Go to HD MFG website and download HD Diagnostics!!
>
> "Me2Ewe" wrote:
>
>> I wrote before about not installing to 2 drives on a P2B Motherboard. I
>> figured out that the one drive I was using a 40GB drive was no good. I
>> put
>> in others and they worked fine. But I tried a WD 120GB drive and it would
>> not work either it started to boot and stuck where it said detecting HDD
>> Primary Master...[Press F4 to skip]
>> F4 doesn't work when it goess there it is set to auto in CMOS and it will
>> not recognize it when i do a check.
>> Any ideas? My 120 couldn't be screwed also could it they are different
>> companies and sizes 120-40GB Western Digital 120 & Seagate Barracuda
>> 40GB
>> Thanks Bruce
>>
>>
>>

If the HD is not recognised in Bios then either its failed or you havent
connected/jumpered it correctly
Using different manu.hd's doesnt matter.

"Me2Ewe" <blawrence@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> <HD MFG> That is Hard Drive right?
> It happened with two different Hard drives Western Digital & Seagate
> Barracuda... Could it be a CMOS Setting not right? How would I check that?
> Thanx for reply
> B
> "Dixonian69" <Dixonian69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A92A9E55-F6A7-4240-8AC2-1BA03CA745AA@microsoft.com...
> > Go to HD MFG website and download HD Diagnostics!!
> >
> > "Me2Ewe" wrote:
> >
> >> I wrote before about not installing to 2 drives on a P2B Motherboard. I
> >> figured out that the one drive I was using a 40GB drive was no good. I
> >> put
> >> in others and they worked fine. But I tried a WD 120GB drive and it
would
> >> not work either it started to boot and stuck where it said detecting
HDD
> >> Primary Master...[Press F4 to skip]
> >> F4 doesn't work when it goess there it is set to auto in CMOS and it
will
> >> not recognize it when i do a check.
> >> Any ideas? My 120 couldn't be screwed also could it they are different
> >> companies and sizes 120-40GB Western Digital 120 & Seagate Barracuda
> >> 40GB
> >> Thanks Bruce
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>

yes. HD =hard drive
MFG= manufacturer

"Me2Ewe" wrote:

> <HD MFG> That is Hard Drive right?
> It happened with two different Hard drives Western Digital & Seagate
> Barracuda... Could it be a CMOS Setting not right? How would I check that?
> Thanx for reply
> B
> "Dixonian69" <Dixonian69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A92A9E55-F6A7-4240-8AC2-1BA03CA745AA@microsoft.com...
> > Go to HD MFG website and download HD Diagnostics!!
> >
> > "Me2Ewe" wrote:
> >
> >> I wrote before about not installing to 2 drives on a P2B Motherboard. I
> >> figured out that the one drive I was using a 40GB drive was no good. I
> >> put
> >> in others and they worked fine. But I tried a WD 120GB drive and it would
> >> not work either it started to boot and stuck where it said detecting HDD
> >> Primary Master...[Press F4 to skip]
> >> F4 doesn't work when it goess there it is set to auto in CMOS and it will
> >> not recognize it when i do a check.
> >> Any ideas? My 120 couldn't be screwed also could it they are different
> >> companies and sizes 120-40GB Western Digital 120 & Seagate Barracuda
> >> 40GB
> >> Thanks Bruce
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

Me2Ewe wrote:

> <HD MFG> That is Hard Drive right?
> It happened with two different Hard drives Western Digital & Seagate
> Barracuda... Could it be a CMOS Setting not right? How would I check
> that? Thanx for reply

If you have tried two different, known-healthy hard drives in your
computer and they are not being seen and/or you cannot install Windows,
AND the drives are correctly jumpered, AND you are using a new and
correct 80-pin ribbon cable, then the fault is on the motherboard. Get
a new motherboard.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Not all true; I can install XP on a 10GB & 20 GB but not any higher. It is
like it has a limit switch on it that wont let a bigger hard drive install,
weird as it seems, but it will not recognize a drive over 20gb.
Am I barking up the wrong tree, and it probably is the motherboard going
anyway?
Bruce
"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:%2336mqo7DGHA.140@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Me2Ewe wrote:
>
>> <HD MFG> That is Hard Drive right?
>> It happened with two different Hard drives Western Digital & Seagate
>> Barracuda... Could it be a CMOS Setting not right? How would I check
>> that? Thanx for reply
>
> If you have tried two different, known-healthy hard drives in your
> computer and they are not being seen and/or you cannot install Windows,
> AND the drives are correctly jumpered, AND you are using a new and
> correct 80-pin ribbon cable, then the fault is on the motherboard. Get
> a new motherboard.
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Me2Ewe wrote:

> Not all true; I can install XP on a 10GB & 20 GB but not any higher.
> It is like it has a limit switch on it that wont let a bigger hard
> drive install, weird as it seems, but it will not recognize a drive
> over 20gb. Am I barking up the wrong tree, and it probably is the
> motherboard going anyway?

Make sure you have not set the jumpers on the hard drives to limit to
32GB. Check the drive mftr.'s tech support website for information to
see if your drives have this ability. Check with the motherboard mftr.
and/or rtfm to see about BIOS limitations. Older motherboards may need
to have a BIOS flash before being able to support larger drives. Only
get the updated BIOS from the m/b mftr. If none is available, you are
SOL - get a new m/b.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Also review the jumpers on the "now to be master" drive,(master w/slave)
for WD drives.

Me2Ewe wrote:

> <HD MFG> That is Hard Drive right?
> It happened with two different Hard drives Western Digital & Seagate
> Barracuda... Could it be a CMOS Setting not right? How would I check that?
> Thanx for reply
> B
> "Dixonian69" <Dixonian69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A92A9E55-F6A7-4240-8AC2-1BA03CA745AA@microsoft.com...
>
>>Go to HD MFG website and download HD Diagnostics!!
>>
>>"Me2Ewe" wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I wrote before about not installing to 2 drives on a P2B Motherboard. I
>>>figured out that the one drive I was using a 40GB drive was no good. I
>>>put
>>>in others and they worked fine. But I tried a WD 120GB drive and it would
>>>not work either it started to boot and stuck where it said detecting HDD
>>>Primary Master...[Press F4 to skip]
>>>F4 doesn't work when it goess there it is set to auto in CMOS and it will
>>>not recognize it when i do a check.
>>>Any ideas? My 120 couldn't be screwed also could it they are different
>>>companies and sizes 120-40GB Western Digital 120 & Seagate Barracuda
>>>40GB
>>>Thanks Bruce
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
>