Hard Disk Not Showing Up

[Jeremiah Scharpe]

Hey there. I have Windows XP Home and installed a seagate ST320430A 20GB Hard drive that has some files I need on it. Its from an older computer that I had. The bios sees the hard drive, however it is giving the drive the wrong model number. but it shows that it is there. then I get into windows and it is in the device manager but not in my computer. so i go to disk manager and it does not show up in there. I have searched the seagate site for windows drivers. all i can find is this disc wizard program. so i downloaded it and installed. when i run it it searches my drives (i think that it is looking at the ones in my computer, cause it shows the drive letters as its scanning.) and then i get a message saying that it needs to have a seagate or maxtor device installed on my system. well i am so lost and not to happy about the seagate product. but if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanx


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[David Vair]

If the BIOS is incorrectly displaying the model, then in most cases Windows will not be able to use
the drive correctly.Seagate should have some utilities that go on a bootbale floppy so you can check
the drive ou.
--
Dave Vair
CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+

<Jeremiah Scharpe> wrote in message news:2007913115026scharpe@gmail.com...
> Hey there. I have Windows XP Home and installed a seagate ST320430A 20GB Hard drive that has some
> files I need on it. Its from an older computer that I had. The bios sees the hard drive, however
> it is giving the drive the wrong model number. but it shows that it is there. then I get into
> windows and it is in the device manager but not in my computer. so i go to disk manager and it
> does not show up in there. I have searched the seagate site for windows drivers. all i can find is
> this disc wizard program. so i downloaded it and installed. when i run it it searches my drives (i
> think that it is looking at the ones in my computer, cause it shows the drive letters as its
> scanning.) and then i get a message saying that it needs to have a seagate or maxtor device
> installed on my system. well i am so lost and not to happy about the seagate product. but if
> anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated!!
>
> Thanx
>
>
> EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
> http://www.eggheadcafe.com

 

[Jim Macklin]

What mobo and BIOS rev?


Also, did you set the jumpers correctly as slave, or cable
select if that is how the other drives are set.

"David Vair" <dvair@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
news:O5OiCEj9HHA.3548@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
| If the BIOS is incorrectly displaying the model, then in
most cases Windows will not be able to use
| the drive correctly.Seagate should have some utilities
that go on a bootbale floppy so you can check
| the drive ou.
| --
| Dave Vair
| CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+
|
| <Jeremiah Scharpe> wrote in message
news:2007913115026scharpe@gmail.com...
| > Hey there. I have Windows XP Home and installed a
seagate ST320430A 20GB Hard drive that has some
| > files I need on it. Its from an older computer that I
had. The bios sees the hard drive, however
| > it is giving the drive the wrong model number. but it
shows that it is there. then I get into
| > windows and it is in the device manager but not in my
computer. so i go to disk manager and it
| > does not show up in there. I have searched the seagate
site for windows drivers. all i can find is
| > this disc wizard program. so i downloaded it and
installed. when i run it it searches my drives (i
| > think that it is looking at the ones in my computer,
cause it shows the drive letters as its
| > scanning.) and then i get a message saying that it needs
to have a seagate or maxtor device
| > installed on my system. well i am so lost and not to
happy about the seagate product. but if
| > anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated!!
| >
| > Thanx
| >
| >
| > EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
| > http://www.eggheadcafe.com
|
|