award 6 bios does it support 300 gig hard drives ?

scubadoguk · Fri Dec 08, 2006 5:31 am

This weekend my wife bought me a 300 hd
got home plugged it in no drive found no boot no nothing swapped cables jumpers and even tried a usb drive box nothing any ideas please

Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:36 pm

does the drive spin up? if it's not recognized at all and you already checked the cabeling then the drive might be dead (yes, those things happen even to new drives from time to time).

scubadoguk · Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:32 pm

cp wrote:does the drive spin up? if it's not recognized at all and you already checked the cabeling then the drive might be dead (yes, those things happen even to new drives from time to time).

Thanks yes it spins but tis going back! try again today thank you

scubadoguk · Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:55 pm

took it back
plugged it in up it spun
thanks again

Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:38 am

so now the hdd is recognized by the bios? with its full capacity?