My hardrive won't load the CD-Rom

[jrpilot]

Hello,

I have been working on my comp. for a few months now because of $$$..but anyways I finally have a greatjob and have put a few $ into my system...well toaday I thought I would finallly be able to load Windows...so I did...well when load it my hardrive wasn't picking anything up it is a Maxtor and that is a great brand name...so I don't know how anytime I buy something it never ******* works....I emailed Maxtor to send it back..all connections are good and eerythign but know the hardrive goes and craps out on me...any thoughts...I just want to fly...

[terbert]

Not that I know much about these things, but

1, Is the Drive being picked up in the Boot menu.
2, Have you changed your Bios to boot up from the CD,
3, Are the jumpers set to Master on the Drive
4, Is the drive picked up in the Std CMOS.
5, Is the drive formatted.


Not much, I know, but may help

Tony

[Gixer]

As for the jumpers.  If you have your CD-rom and your HDD on one IDE cable remeber one must be set as 'Master' and the other as 'Slave'

If it is the only device on the IDE cable have it set as 'Master'

Ensure the IDE cable that comes from your main HDD is plugged into the lowest IDE plug socket on your mobo, I cant remeber if its 1 or 0 but you have two and it must be plugged into the lowest numbered one.