not finding hard drives

[aj2003]

Im trying to setup 2 20gig hard drives to my brothers computer as his 40gig one has just died. Only thing is i can get the bios to pick either of them up in any configuration. Ive never had this kinda problem before, they are all plugged in correctly, i just dont understand it. Any ideas are welcome

 

[StrifeX]

Is there an OS on either of the hard drives?

 

[aj2003]

there is a OS on one yes, but its not even gettin that far. in the post screen it just cant find them. Now ive put the one with the OS in my computer on the same IDE as my 250gig maxtor and it didnt pick up either of them.

 

[StrifeX]

Are these Hard Drives brand new? Or removed from a previous computer?

 

[PC Man Brian]

Make sure that the HD's aren't like fried.

 

[aj2003]

they are quite old. Ive managed to get the one that had the OS on it working on mine so im formatting it atm, hopefully that will help. Il keep you upto date

 

[PC Man Brian]

Please do, I will look into the state of fried HD's, lol.

 

[StrifeX]

Hmm that might be a slave hard drive so it might not work if you dont have a master hard drive.