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Originally Posted by | Red Devil |
silly question: does the drive have both its power and data connections?
no power = no drive action 
also, i'd make sure the used drive works |
As Red said make sure you have both power going to it and the data Cable.
Set the jumpers to cable select to get by the master slave thing on the data cable.
You need to make sure that Windows does not see the drive by going into:
Computer Management and Device Management (Disk Drives)
Device Management to see if Windows has loaded any Drivers for the disk.
If you do all this and no luck then do this.
Setup the Bios to boot from the CD.
Get a Windows XP CD or a Boot disk of some kind.
Place the Boot Disk or WIndows XP disk in the drive.
**(The windows XP disk should try to install windows, only go to the point where you can format the disk then stop.)
Turn off the PC.
Unplug all Drives BUT for the Used Drive and One CD/DVD Drive.
Start your PC up.
If you see the drive now try to Format it and after that put every thing back to the way it was and see if windows see it.
If you can not see the drive then I will say it is DEAD.