Slave hardrive formating problems

[ant101]

I have bough and connected my new hardrive as slave. I use windows xp manually to format and so on but ti disappears form the drive list with in 24hours of it working. I used segate disk wizard to format it didn't help neither it also disappears from the list and re aperas asking to be formated again. How do i fix this problem.

 

[CmdPT]

Try going to Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Storage - Disk Management. Format it there but do a quick one cause it will take way too long to format completely. Try this first see if it works.

 

[ant101]

thats the problem i already did that but it disappears after couple days and asks to format again and sometimes it says error

 

[gent]

System and drive spec etc?

 

[CmdPT]

First of what kind of hardrive is it SATA or IDE drive?

 

[ant101]

Its an IDE 320gb

 

[CmdPT]

The you should try pushing the IDE cable again and also the power cable that plugs into the HD maybe its just loose. This happened to me so many times on my other PC.

 

[Slobogob]

If your mainboard has a VIA chipset, that could be the cause too. If nothing helps, update the bios and let the bios do the plug and play configuration. That usually helps.

 

[mike99]

Download and run manufacturers diagnostic, see if it passes.

Mike.

 

[ant101]

Why would that cause it?

 

[ant101]

How do you upgrade the bios and will this delete my current version that i am running on my master?