secondary HDD problem

[snypercore]

i have just been given a 20GB IDE HDD, my curretn master drive is conencted to the master end of the primary IDE cable and my new one the same cable but the slave. i have tried the jumpers in every position but i cnat get this HDD to work. at one point i booted to windows, windwos added it and under my computer it was there but with no size shown and when i tried to open it it said the drive need formatting when i click ok the max capacity was 1.98GB but the drive is 100% a 20GB??? i have tried bootin with windows disk and formatting but windows setup cant find it. depending on where my jumpers are my BIOS will say its connected...any suggestions. BTW i am a bit stumped for jumpers as this one has so many options

it has the slave option under :

16 heads
15 heads
2GB clip
Auto Spin disable

which do i need?

 

[wycherley]

It sounds like your hard drive is knackered. When you say you where given this hard drive, was it working fine before or has it been in someone's draw for 2 months? was it given to you in an anti static bag?

 

[TheMajor]

Don't put the jumper on the 2GB clip position. It will "clip" your disk to 2GB.

Set both disks to Cable Select (CS).

 

[snypercore]

i set jumpers and in BIOS i get the messgae:

prim slave HDD error
F1 to continue

 

[Osiris]

try it without any jumpers,both drives

 

[snypercore]

still nothing, didnt even show up on bios post that time. is this disk just had it or could it be something else?

 

[snypercore]

bump.