hey peoples i have a problem with my new hard drive and i am hoping for a solution. I have brought a Seagate Barracuta 60 gb 7200rpm drive and i also brought a LITE-ON LTD-165H. I have installed both drives and removed the seagate 8.4 formally in their but left the LITE-ON 12101B in their. The HD is Primary Master, the burner the primary slave and the DVD is the Secondary Master. I am getting many messages saying something like could not write to C: some data may be lost press any key to return. I have been unable to install Microsoft Office 2000 and many other things that i install frequently come up with this error message but do end up installing. Also downloading and copying off a cd to the hard drive are other things that trigger this message. I am at the seagate site at the moment doing tests on the drive but so far no errors have been found (ive done all execpt the last 20 min test which is going right now). Any help would be appriciated and suggestions
Thanx in advace
Stewy

I presume you did check your cables (they have to be properly connected) and jumper settings before posting this?

Since your old harddrive was a 8,4 Gb, I presume your computer is a little older. That could mean that your BIOS has troubles with a harddisk, bigger than 33Gb. In most cases, if this is the matter, the BIOS failes to detect the harddrive like it should, but sometimes harddrives are detected but don't work as they should.
You could try to flash a new bios version into your mainboard, that could be the solution.

If you could provide us some more information, about your system (software + hardware) it could be easier to think of a solution...

Well, im running Windows ME and i amn having troubles trying to flash the bios to the latest revision. I hav a HP Pavilion 8506 but it has many changes. I am not running the HP software except for the modem, sound and video card drivers, i am running windows ME and not the pre-installed 98. i have removed the original 32x/40x cd reader and replaced with a LITE-ON DVD-ROM LTD 165H and i have added a burner (LITE-ON 12101B) The seagate site did not detect any errors and i cannot flash with the lastest revision of the bios because i open the flash program and it does a check and says it cannot do anything with memory controllers (such as himem.sys) running and i dont know wat to do about this the bios is pheonix bios and i downloaded the newest revision from the HP.com site when downloading other updated drivers for my particular computer
Thanx again

Stewy

I just took off the top of the box and realised the DVD was on primary slave and not primary master. it is now on primary master. should i leave it this way or is their anything else i should change around?