Western Digital 120GB Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

From: Firouz (Firouz_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/02/04 

Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 08:43:03 -0700

I have Windows XP home edition on my computer. I bought a Western Digital
120GB Hard Disk Drive (HDD) yesterday to upgrade my older 60GB Western
Digital. The replacement seemed easy when I was reilnstall Windows on the new
drive. But when I tried to restart the computer, it could not recognize the
hard drive, problem continued regardless of the fact all cables were
connected properly. I was tired and so I turned it off for a while. When
restarting it was able to recognize the hard drive, but again when I
attempted o restart the computer could not recognize it. SO I thought
changing it back to my older hard drive, and guess what the same problem.
It recognizes the drive when the computer is off for while. If I try to
restart or turn it off and on in less than a minute it does not recognize the
older HDD neither. But if I leave the computer off again for 2-3 minutes, and
turn it on again, it can recognize it.
Right now, my computer works but I will not try to restart it, hopefully .
Could you please help me solving this issue.
I will appreciate so much your kind help,

Kind Regards,

Firouz

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