gdmwilson

Thanks for that but the drive works when I select it from the boot menu in the bios its a western digital by the way

Boo hoo tried that very perplexing

Yep It's in the bios and selected as boot up drive there.... this is totally puzzling because if the drive was faulty it wouldn't boot up when I go to boot menu...

Oops should have said new drive is not boot up drive and is set to slave

:mad:Hope someone can help me because I am at the end of my mentally with this one! I have just installed a new hard drive in a pc and now on boot up say's hard disk failure. Took the new drive out - rebooted still says hard drive failure arghhh! check jumpers on drives, Check bios setiings all fine. On boot up pressed key to get to boot up menu - selected boot from hard drive - selected the harddrive that I assume is failing - machine boots up fine arghhhhhh Take out all other drives etc cd drive - reboot pc with the boot drive as the only drive in - get the harddrive failure message - go to boot menu - select hard drive - boots up fine to windows - reboot - get hard drive failure message. Changed IDE cable - same thing happens. Have tried every option I can think of. Machine is an AMD athlon tm 64 x2 5000+ with 2gb memory The board is under a year old. Any ideas????