wtf is wrong now!!!

blade_146 · Post by **blade_146** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 1:41 pm

Got my WD 800JB in from rma yesterday, just tried to hook it and the bios sees if fine but the damned thing will not partition. I run fdisk and "error reading fixed disk" One thing i have noticed is that it takes forever to boot up with the WD hooked up. The IDE initilizing takes a good minute. THen it moves on to my scsi as usual then hung again right before the windows screen and said
"the system configuration manager failed to run" one or more of your "something" device drivers may not initalize properly

wtf is that all about?? surely i can use a 80gig drive on this system

CaterpillarAssassin · Post by **CaterpillarAssassin** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 1:48 pm

why not try manually entering the number of cylinders, heads, and sectors (i think sectors....forgot the 3rd thing)

blade_146 · Post by **blade_146** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 2:21 pm

well i dl'd the data lifeguard program from WD's site and used it to partition and format. windows only shows it as 74.4 gigs but at least i can use it now.)*
stills boots slow as hell tho

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 2:40 pm

IMPORTANT: If you've never used a WD drive before, the jumpers are different. There are two seperate jumper settings for MASTER WITH SLAVE and SINGLE MASTER.

If you have it jumpered wrong BIOS may or may not recognize it. Sometimes BIOS will still recognize it but since it's jumpered wrong it'll be slow to access and will be unreliable (you're likely to lose data).

If it's jumpered correctly and still takes a long time to POST I'd run the Lifeguard Diagnostic utility on it and make sure there's no problems.

blade_146 · Post by **blade_146** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 2:46 pm

i ran the diagnostics and it reported no errors. i did move the jumper from CS to master. think i should move it back?

that was it FP. THe setting for single master is no jumper at all. Pulled it off and it booted so fast I hardly had time to read the detection screen. maybe thats the problem i'm having in my other thread.

thanks dude >?

Busby · Post by **Busby** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 5:16 pm

Yeah I hate how Western Digital's require that and it does affect it greatly.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Nov 08, 2002 5:20 pm

It's *possible* that anything you put on that drive might be corrupt if the settings were wrong before. Run a scandisk on it again to play safe. If you haven't put anything on it yet, you might want to delete the partition and re-partition and format it just to play safe.

The new Maxtor drives are jumpered the same way now

It's a pain in the @ss.