IDE drive showing up as SCSI... help

2009-04-04 22:43:24

#1

-Whiteroom-: Pineapplewhat; +572|6922|BC, Canada

hey so my boss gave me a WD2000BB (western digital 200GB blue) to reformat to NTFS for him....
It came from one of the servers at work.
I get it home see it has a IDE connection so I plug it in and cant read it with my partition manager. Device manager tells me its
WDC WD20 00BB-00G SCSI disk device.

I have zero experiece with SCSI except that I think its got different connectors than IDE.

The WD website tells me its EIDE.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=35

Am I up shit creek or what?

2009-04-04 23:08:46

#2

CrazeD: Member; +368|6936|Maine

It's probably just labeling it wrong.

Just plug it in as a slave, right click the drive > format.

2009-04-05 09:06:18

#3

-Whiteroom-: Pineapplewhat; +572|6922|BC, Canada

tried this.... didnt even recognize the drive then....
so far ive tried multiple jumper positions, changing the hdd sequence in the bios, tried to get into it through ubuntu but my ubuntu wont load atm.
It's not even seeing the drive in My Computer, only in Device Manager, any other suggestions, I would really like to make this work since the guy im doing it for just got me a huge deal on some car parts.

2009-04-05 13:57:02

#4

CrazeD: Member; +368|6936|Maine

Does it show in disk management?

2009-04-05 22:23:43

#5

-Whiteroom-: Pineapplewhat; +572|6922|BC, Canada

no love from disk management at all.... seems the only place it shows up is in device manager and bios..... this is an annoying problem

2009-04-06 07:34:27

#6

prototype: Member; +52|6574

I had the same problem a while back
for some reason my old dell 4300 would not recognize a newer IDE HDD and gave me the same errors/problems

I put the same drive in a newer dell 2350 and it worked fine.

maybe because of the age difference?

2009-04-06 07:54:48

#7

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6831|NYC / Hamburg

Some old OSs and hardware don't support accessing HDDs over 128GiB

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2009-04-06 10:35:58

#8

prototype: Member; +52|6574

the one that gave me a hard time was only 80GB

2009-04-06 20:40:04

#9

-Whiteroom-: Pineapplewhat; +572|6922|BC, Canada

its all somewhat new hardware and xp 32 bit I'm running, and the hard drive itself isn't incredibly old.... I'm gonna take it in to the tech guys at work and see if they can figure it out at all....

this is my hardware set up...
Intel E6600 @ 3.10 GHz
EVGA 9800 GT @ 700/1750/1902
4 GB OCZ Platinum XTC Rev. 2
WD caviar 250GB
Creative X-Fi Xtrememusic
Gigabyte GA-P965-DS3 mobo
Tuniq Tower heatsink
Thermaltake Armor full tower

2009-04-07 15:19:48

#10

CrazeD: Member; +368|6936|Maine

Try a bootable program like Partition Magic, GParted, etc.

max wrote:
Some old OSs and hardware don't support accessing HDDs over 128GiB

Are you talking about the 28-bit addressing that older drives used?

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