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Need help, A couple of weeks going i bought a 450 Mhz Pentium 3 with 384MB Memory
from the Flea Market. It is an IBM 300GL and game with Windows 2000 Pro and a 2.5GB
Hard Drive. I am however trying to put a 40GB Seagate Hard Drive in there and that alone.
However if i do that BIOS will say i have no Hard Drive and won`t let me continue.

[Yes i have the Windows 2000/ Office 2000 Disk.]

Make sure the motherboard can support your HD. AFAIK older computers are incompatible with newer HDs.

It does work but only if i have my other hard drive in at the same time. Which i don`t want Windows 2000 to run off a 2.5GB Drive because it slows the computer down.

Do you want to boot off the new driver or have it working along side the existing one? If you want to boot from it and use it alone, you will need to reformat and install Windows on that disk.

Take out the new one and make sure that it's slave/master pins are in properly.

you may have to manually add in into the BIOS the cylinders, heads, and sectors, also older Bios's have 8 GB limitations if that's the case then you may have to look at disc Wizard I think that's what I ended up using when I had this same problem.

as far as jumpers go avoid cable select, it is problematic (not always 100% from my experience)

the last thing I can think of and I seriously doubt it but you could try a 80 pin IDE cable and see if that helps

What you can try if you have anpther computer is to put the 40 GB drive there temporarily, and install Windows there. (Also make sure to install the latest service packs)
Then put the drive in the old computer and make sure the jumpers are set to master and also that the disc is alone on the primary cable.