freakin weird HD prob

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swedishlf

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Hey all,
I'm installing a new HD for a friend and have been at this for a day now without getting much of anywhere. The problem is this:

40GB western Digital hard drive set to master on primary IDE channel. It's the only thing on that channel.

I boot from a floppy, FDISK, create a Primary Dos Partition, reboot.

Format c: /s, it formats just fine.

Pop the floppy out, and reboot. INVALID SYSTEM DISK...

Tried the above a couple times, no progress.

So I tried with my winXP CD just for grins, it boots from the CD, I tell it to install XP. Format the disk NTFS via windows setup. The first time it goes to reboot INVALID SYSTEM DISK...

I cannot for anything get it to boot from this hard drive. I stuck it in my computer and formatted, ran a full surface scandisk, no errors found.

The only other tell tail sign I can see is that POST takes a VERY long time. It lags at Detecting IDE drives, then again after it displays the installed drives. Then again before it will boot from any device it hangs for a very long time. If I disconnect power to the HD, the POST and boot (from floppy/CD) take almost no time at all.

Should I take the HD back? Or am I just missing something simple? Thanks guys!
 
pull the jumper out or place it in a neutral position. read the manual about single master-its that simple.
 
MY GOD I'M AN IDIOT!

It's been so long since I had a single hard drive I didn't even consider that.

:rolleyes: You ever have one of those days? I'm having a freaking week like that.

Thanks a million man, make fun as you will. I deserve it.
 
nah, the "its that simple" was more of a zennish old man quote. i edited to post the info, but i decided i wanted you to look, read, and then learn to remember the western digital way. so i deleted the extra info.

your welcome
 
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