Stupid HD

[Nye553]

Western digital HD sucks???? I dunno... is ata diff from sata?

[MaMMa]

WD is ok, get a seagate and be happy.

ATA and SATA is very different. Google the 2 and see. also see if ur mobo even supports it

[BillR]

Western digital HD sucks???? I dunno... is ata diff from sata?

SATA and ATA are very different, what is the exact problem?

[Nye553]

Well... I already brought it to a local computer shop to have it looked at but my dell dim. wouldn't detect my hd when i booted it up. But in the bios it detected it. So I don't know what's worng.

[defakto]

Doyou mean when windows boots or the initial system post? You do need to assign it a driver letter and format it through disk or computer management in windows.

[MaMMa]

put in ur os cd. when it boots up in the setup menu, look on the bottom its gonna say press F6 to install RAID/SCSI drivers. press F6 then its gonna ask for the drivers, floppy only. install it and u can setup windows like normal. it may/maynot recognize in bios but it will in windows.

[Nye553]

I would have tried these suggestions, but I don't have the discs with me.

[MaMMa]

you can dl it from ur manufacture's website as well as all the driver updates and bios