New Hardrive

[Livy]

everytime i go into my bios to detect the settings for my new hardrive, it freezes when it gets to that drive,
any ideas on what the problem may be. or any help

[adamp2p]

Hard drives are very, very senstitve to EVERYTHING. The distance between the read write head is 1/20th the size of a human hair, thus if you have ever dropped it you are f*&#ked.

[balamm]

Slave/master/CS settings ok ? Have you sys'd the drive if it's a slave drive. Shouldn't need to but maybe the Bios needs it to recognise the drive. It's not on a ultra ATA card is it?
Could be defective as well.

[Livy]

at the moment ive got it as master on second ide channel, also when i went to fromat in win 200 as fat32 it said something about disk size to large

[Livy]

seems like it was a bios prob, had a look on maxtors homepage, alot of older bioses do not support disks over 32gb, anyway, got it all sorted now,