IBM 810Mb HDD wont boot. HELP

[Karlos]

How long does the HD light stay on for? OS3.1 canl wait for up to 30 seconds or so for a hard disk to spin up.

Also, trying a 2.5 inch cable the "wrong way" round is asking for disaster. The four extra pins in the IDE ribbon are for power/ground.

[Karlos]

Thanks for the Reply
It actually works WHOOHOO
It turns out it was the wrong way around. The reason i never put it that way is because it put too much strain on the cable. But i sorted it anyway.

Thanks fellas

Phew, you dodged a bullet by the sound of it. Really, don't use a 2.5 inch cable the wrong way round. You could bake your drive and your machine, or at least the IDE.

[Karlos]

Have you tried running HDToolbox from your install disks(s) ?

Until it is partitioned, it isn't going to show up on the operating system as a viable drive.

It should appear on scsi.device in HDToolbox. You'll then need to create at least 1 partition, below the 4GB limit (hint, 100MB is more than enough for a Workbench partition) to put the OS on and make sure it is ticked as bootable.

Once you've created the partition and saved the changes, you'll need to reboot from your floppy disk(s) again. The newly created partition should come up as unformatted disk icons on your desktop. You'll need to format them (use quick format unless you like waiting). Once formatted, you can install your OS.