Help, HDD ain't workin on that MB? why?

[_N_]

Ok,

I have an TMC MI5VP4 ver 1.1 motherboard and a seagate 1.7GB HDD,

The HDD works on my computer (ASUS A7V266EX)
Other HDD's work on that TMC mobo.

BIOS on TMC detects the HDD fine and fast.

But when I try to boot up, it doesn't work, eg, boot up with win98/me/95 boot up floppy and it says that the HDD doesn't exsist, and can't create partitions with Fdisk.

I flashed the bios
I changed the cables around
I tried different settings, master/slave, pri/sec etc,

What am I doing wrong?

other 400MB HDD works on the computer, but the 1.7 doesn't wan't to on that particular machine,

why, oh why? :(

[Grrr!!]

I think you would've checked this, but it doesn't have an NTFS partition does it?

[_N_]

yep, formated into fat32 on my ASUS board,
works fine in there,

SP suggested that I try maybe 80 pin IDE cable, so I'll do that when I get some time.

[Antimatter]

Try using the Seatools utility to set the HDD up. If it doesn't detect with that, try setting the CHS manually in BIOS.

[Agent666]

not familiar with that board but if it is real old it might not be able to address partitions of that size??? .... maybe try a partition under 540Mb and see if it works??

[_N_]

ok, that's a good idea,

CHS selection didn't help.

thanks, I'll try all this stuff now.