Western Digital 200 gig drive

**outofdrivespace** · March 12th, 2004, 06:22 PM

I have a wd2000jbrtl 200gig u100 8meg udma/100 harddrive, a ata tx2 controller card came with it. I have a asus p4c800 deluxe mobo, i updated the bios yesterday. My problem is that it isnt being detected in the bios when i use the controller card or when I take it off the card and take the card out. I hooked it up to the pri_raid, and the pri_ide slot and both times will not be detected. I was wondering if I could just put in on as a slave drive and will be detected. I havent tried it with the new bios, but, I would like to know if it will be detected as a slave drive, it has been formatted to it's 186 gig's. I think I left windows 98 on it. But since I have winxp, I can just put in the winxp disc and start it up and just delete the primary partition on it right?

Other then that How else could i get the controller card or the harddrive detected. I was thinking maybe the harddrive died on me, but until I can get it detected I cant be sure.

This my first time with a high capacity drive like this, and first time with western digital, so far im not impressed. I have had maxtor for 2 years a 80 gig, and hasn't failed me yet, even with all the abus i put on it. That shows me alot about the company.

Any help you can give me, would be nice and grateful.

**EvilRick** · March 12th, 2004, 06:28 PM

Check the jumpers. By default, it should be set to a single drive. If it's a Master or Slave to another drive, you will need to change the jumpers.

Your controller card will have to have the drivers intalled in order to see it in Windows I do believe. I've never used one w/ a card, but that just makes sense to me.

**outofdrivespace** · March 12th, 2004, 06:32 PM

Well it was on single before, then after the format it stop being detected, so changed it to master, and still have the same problem. Thats why i wanted to know it i could but on slave with my 80 gig and not use the controller card.

thanks for replying so fast.

**EvilRick** · March 12th, 2004, 06:44 PM

You could try putting it on as Slave. You can partition/format from within XP.

Just because you formatted should not have effected wether or not it was seen in the BIOS.