| Firstly, the drive should spin even if it is not recognised by the BIOS. The problem is usually the cable round the wrong way or faulty. A word of warning here - definitely don't mess around connecting drives with the power on (duh!) Its very easy to fry a HD - I know. The main problem I experienced with hard drives seems to be related to the brand. I bought 2 WP for experimentation, and have a bunch of drives ranging from 2.1GB-20GB lying around. I found that none of the Fuji drives could be recognised by the BIOS, but ALL the Toshiba drives could be. Believe me - I messed around with settings for a long time trying to get those Fuji drives recognised and to this day never had any success, even though the BIOS is up to date and handles all large drives. Anyone out there had a different experience, if so what is the solution?
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