[hannah8989]

Im new to these forums and I would really appriciate a hand from someone with my problem.
I am running a Pentium 4 with windows xp, Iam not too sure of the specifics Im not very computer literate
I bought a 140gig seagate hard drive brand new from a computer shop around 6 months ago. All of a sudden my hard drive stopped being detected in the IDE drives on the boot screen. If I restart, or leave it and come back and turn it back on it sometimes detects, boots up and goes great.
I thought it could be the IDE cable so I bought a brand new one.
and I still have the same problem
I have noo clue what it could be but im about to buy a new computer Im that fustrated
please help me!

[cheesewheels99]

mabye a jumper is set wrong did you recently install any new devieces? is it set to master? the only other thing may be some sort od bios issues if nothing else works you should flash them

[Mike0001]

Originally Posted by hannah8989 I am running a Pentium 4 with windows xp I bought a 140gig seagate hard drive brand new from a computer shop around 6 months ago. All of a sudden my hard drive stopped being detected in the IDE drives on the boot screen.

Can someone refresh my memory about when motherboards started to be capable of handling disks this size? I have a P4 upstairs running disks up to 320Gb, but I updated the firmware.

[cheesewheels99]

mabye try to update the firmware