Can't F Disk?

[Roadkill]

Installed an old hard drive in my computer, went to F Disk it for a clean install and the screen sez " NO FIXED DISKS PRESENT'.

What doe's this mean, and what do I do now?:confused:

[smokin]

It could mean the cable is on wrong..check that. Also..did you go in to the bios and let it detect hard drive..or set it to auto? Oh and make sure that the hard drive is set as "master"
HTH
:)

[Biff]

It's tellin ya you aint got a hard drive bud...lol

I'd be checking the power cable and the master/slave jumper position. It could be you got the jumper set differently to the position it occupies on the cable I've had errors due to this. If ithe jumper diagram is not readable off the hdd, try the manufacturers web site for jumper configuration. If its a ATA66 or higher system you have, and you have an 80 pin cable it matters which end attaches to the mb and hdd.

If thats Ok I would be looking in the bios to see if it is detecting it. I will leave that area of expertese to more experienced members to help.

Good luck:)
Biff

[madfish]

if the Hdd is a Western Digital and it's the only Hdd on the cable, you ether have to set the jumper to cable selcet or just remove the bugger, W/D's are dam fussy about that. at least everyone I have every had and came across was.

I have about 10 Hdd's ranging in size from 500 mg to 6 gig that have my boxes tell me, NO FIXED DISKS PRESENT. they are collection dust in on the porch, I could never get them to be seen in any of our machines. maxtors/quatium bigfoots/seagates/fiftius {lol can't spell it} these Hdds all worked when I got them, I fdisked them and now they don't show. oh well.

[Roadkill]

Guess what folks, just for the heck of it, I stuck it into another computer. Not only did it recognize it, but it started to load up. Seems there was a copy of Windows 98 SE on it. I purchased this drive from a local franchise computer shop as a "refubished" hard drive. I guess "refurbished" means pull it from an old machine, dust it off, slap a "refurbished" sticker on it, and put it on the retail shelf. Learn something new every day!