Re: Mystery problem with new hard drive

N wrote:

CJT -- Like I said before, the BIOS recognized the drive as 120 GB; I
set the jumpers to limit the drive capacity to 33 GB and nothing
changed; my old (dead) drive was 60 GB and it worked for a few years.

Rod Speed -- I tried clearhdd and it gave me:

1th Cylinder of Total 1024, 1th Head of Total 255
Error Occured, Error Code 04
if you know detail error message, see Bolrand C++ 2.0 ref lib book page
61

I tried installing XP again and I remembered what happens: The first
part of the installation works fine; I format a FAT32 partition and it
copies a bunch of files to the hard drive.  It says it will reboot in
15 seconds and then setup will continue.  When it reboots, no boot
record is found on the hard drive so it boots to the XP setup CD again
and the entire installation process starts from the beginning.


Remove the cable and check for bent pins on the drive connector.

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