Motherboard won't recognoze hard drive.

[shoesup]

I was able to get the drive to work, and load Windows 98 onto the drive. In windows, it recognized that the drive capacity was 19GB.

Next, I attempted to use Ghost to clone my old Maxtor 3GB HD onto the new Maxtor 20GB HD - AND I ERASED THE DATA ON THE 20GB, AND GOT SOME ERROR MESSAGE THAT THE 20GB DRIVE DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH CAPACITY TO ACCEPT THE 3GB DATA !!!

So, I formated the 20GB HD and began the process again. On my second attemp (with no data on the HD), I followed the Maxtor instructions, and placed the Maxtor MaxBlast Plus disks in the A: and D: (CD-ROM) drives, accordingly.

This time, my Compaq DeskPro 4000 would not recognoze the drive at all. I could not even get into the MaxBlast software to do anything. I even tried booting with a bootable floopy - and I still could not get in, or gain access to the drive !!!

AM I DOING SOMETHING WRONG ???

A friend suggested I use a utility called "zap", which would remove any and all partitions from HD.

What is wrong ??? It seens like my drive. or motherboard is locked up, because when I use the Maxtor software - or any boot disks, it won't bring up the program, or FDISK, or ZAP. I even got an error message that says: "invalid drive specification."

Please help.

Thank you

[Iman74]

For starters, definetly use zap and to get that go here
From there if you want to take what is on a 3gig onto a 20gig you are better off using or the other utilities.
1. Drive Image
2. Norton Ghost
Both are easy to find and are affordable comparing to what some software packages go for these days.

DP4000
RU using the drives as master and slave or cable select. That could have something to do with it. But if they are both being recognized in the BIOS then there shouldn't be a problem there. Also, make sure you positive you choose the correct source and destination drives.

Also, if I understand you correctly you have a 3gig that has your OS and data and everything else and you want to put that on the larger drive? If yes then everything I just told you should do it. Still having problems there might be something wrong with the hardware or the disk drives don't work well together at the sametime which happens occasionly.

Also, you always want to run ghost or drive image after booting to a bootable disk. You do not want to boot to the drive you are copying from.

[shadow_man]

GW...Are you saying your computer will not boot with a boot disk??

shadow_man