xarzu
08-04-2008, 02:21 AM
I have an old hard drive that has those old ribbon connections to transfer data to the mother board.
I have a new computer that mostly uses those cool little ATA (I think that is what they are called) connections.
The new computer has a Vista OS.
I opened up the case and I was supprised to see on the motherboard a wide ribbon connection and so I connected the old hard drive and a free power connection.
When I turned on the computer, the system started up like usual and did not notice the new hard drive.
I went to the Control Pannel and did an automatic add hard drive call and it did not find the old hard drive.
Any suggestions?
I think my old hard drive is called an IDE drive.
The Jumpers are set to slave. The system does not see it. Maybe I need to get the driver from the manufacturer.
Another thing is this. Does it matter where on the ribbon you connect the harddrive? The ribbon has one connection at the end and anotther one in the middle. I am connecting it to the end.
The hard drive is a seagate model ST320413A and their website does not provide any suggestions for download a driver or making the system recognize the drive.
When I right click on "Computer" and choose manage and click on "Disk Management", here is what I see after I have rebooted and tried a couple of times:
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h292/Athono/after_reboot.jpg
What now?
I have a new computer that mostly uses those cool little ATA (I think that is what they are called) connections.
The new computer has a Vista OS.
I opened up the case and I was supprised to see on the motherboard a wide ribbon connection and so I connected the old hard drive and a free power connection.
When I turned on the computer, the system started up like usual and did not notice the new hard drive.
I went to the Control Pannel and did an automatic add hard drive call and it did not find the old hard drive.
Any suggestions?
I think my old hard drive is called an IDE drive.
The Jumpers are set to slave. The system does not see it. Maybe I need to get the driver from the manufacturer.
Another thing is this. Does it matter where on the ribbon you connect the harddrive? The ribbon has one connection at the end and anotther one in the middle. I am connecting it to the end.
The hard drive is a seagate model ST320413A and their website does not provide any suggestions for download a driver or making the system recognize the drive.
When I right click on "Computer" and choose manage and click on "Disk Management", here is what I see after I have rebooted and tried a couple of times:
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h292/Athono/after_reboot.jpg
What now?