My maxtor D740X-6l 40GB drive will not boot up. I can hook the drive up to another computer and read the files but it will not even show as a drive on the original computer. The first computer recognizes other drives fine. What should I do?
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Turn off your computer.
Disconnect the "data" cables from all other disk-drives and CD/DVD drives from your computer.
Connect only the MAXTOR (both power and data cables).
Then, restart your computer, and press DEL to enter BIOS SETUP.
Now, is the MAXTOR detected?
Is it detected as a "master" drive or as a "slave" drive?
Shutdown.
Take the ribbon-cable that leads to the MAXTOR.
It has 3 connectors. Leave one connector connected to the motherboard.
Unplug the connector that _was_ connected to the disk-drive,
and connect the disk-drive to the "other" connector.
Restart.
Enter BIOS setup.
Is the MAXTOR detected as "master" or "slave" ?
Shutdown.
Reconnect the CD-drive to the *OTHER* ribbon-cable.
Restart BIOS setupo.
Are both the MAXTOR and the CD-drive detected?
If so, then Windows should boot from the disk-drive.
Hello,
all you have to do is to simply set the jumper at the back of he hard disk, beside where the IDE cable and power enter into the hard disk.
Just keep setting till you put at the right position where the system recognizes it.
There is nothing wrong with your PC and hard drive, just set the jumper of the Hard disk and that should be all.
Take care.