Just connect the new drive to the connector the working drive is using. You know that connection works, so then you have isolated the problem to the hard drive. If you contact Maxtor they are probably going to ask you to do that anyway before they issue an RMA so you can return the drive.
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Gudanov - Sep 20, 2006 6:27:10 am PDT #8986 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Vonnie K - Sep 20, 2006 6:28:34 am PDT #8987 of 10003
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Oh, got it. Thanks. I'll try that when I get home.
Kalshane - Sep 20, 2006 9:52:11 am PDT #8988 of 10003
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I agree, it sounds like a bad drive.
However, it's also possible you may need to upgrade your BIOS. It might be a case of it not being able to recognize a drive that big, which is why it's coming back with a size of 0MB. What's the size of the drive currently in your system?
ETA: Or it could be a completely brainless new "feature" that causes problems because nothing supports it. A quick Googling turned up this thread about the problem [link] with a rather inventive (and scary) solution, but it looks like this post in that thread [link] has a more sensible solution that doesn't require a soldering iron.
Kalshane - Sep 20, 2006 2:25:25 pm PDT #8989 of 10003
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Seems like this is the place for the link...
You know, I totally missed that Seth Green was in it until someone elsewhere mentioned it.
(Edited to correct typo)
§ ita § - Sep 20, 2006 2:42:04 pm PDT #8990 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I want to make a copy of a video DVD. In OSX, when I select copy--I don't know what's to happen next. It seems like nothing does.
My burner on my XP machine doesn't work. I'd really like to make an ISO copy of the disk, zap that over to the Mac and burn from there. I have Nero, I have Sonic MyDVD and I have Drag'N Drop CD+DVD. Can't work out how to make an image on any of them. Well, not one that's not an NRG file. Help!
Rob - Sep 20, 2006 3:03:59 pm PDT #8991 of 10003
In the Utilities folder is a utility call Disk Utility. It can make images of DVDs and make DVDs from those images.
§ ita § - Sep 20, 2006 3:17:19 pm PDT #8992 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ta. I know I've burnt using that, but it didn't even come to mind...
Vonnie K - Sep 20, 2006 4:23:56 pm PDT #8993 of 10003
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Thanks for the links, Kalshane. Heh. Scary is write. I don't think I want to fiddle with the pins, unless the Maxtor people refuse to give me refund or something like that.
I don't have a floppy drive, but I downloaded the software onto a CD and set my BIOS to boot from CD/DVD drive by default; I ended up with a "set up hard drive" screen where the only drive detected by the software was my master drive. Wah.
Next time, I'm gonna stick with Western Digital, I think. Yikes.
Jon B. - Sep 20, 2006 4:32:12 pm PDT #8994 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
You know, I totally missed that Seth Green was in it until someone elsewhere mentioned it.
Oooh, I missed that too. Donnie Osmond is awesome doing the Numfar dance.
Kalshane - Sep 20, 2006 5:23:28 pm PDT #8995 of 10003
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Thanks for the links, Kalshane. Heh. Scary is write. I don't think I want to fiddle with the pins, unless the Maxtor people refuse to give me refund or something like that.
Yeah, I'm fairly comfortable with tinkering with my computer, but I draw the line at making mechanical changes to the hardware. I'm sorry the software the other guy suggested didn't work for you.
I would also check with your motherboard manufacturer to make sure what size hard drives it supports, and whether you need to update your BIOS to manage drives of a certain size.