Problem With 300 GB Hard Disk Drive

**Aakarshan.d** · 23-03-2009

I am facing a strange problem with my dell dimension c521 desktop machine I recently purchased 300 gb hard disk drive. It's of seagate company. The problem got arrived when i attached the hdd to the motherboard and tried to boot, it prompted that diskette drive 0 seek failure error. I am totally shocked as this is my new hdd and has been tried for the first time. Please provide some help regarding this.

Your help will be appreciated

**Hardwareman** · 23-03-2009

Replace the CMOS battery, go into the BIOS and disable the 'Floppy Seek' function, reconnect the IDE drives and you should be good to go...

The battery has about a 3 yr life expectancy, so after being 'off' for an extended period, I suppose it scrambled the BIOS settings. Diskette Drive 0 usually refers to the floppy drive, and I'm guessing that there isn't one installed in that machine, mainly since you didn't mention one being installed.

**Maxforu** · 23-03-2009

as a workaround try not turning on the printer untill the computer is fully booted and also make sure in msconfig nothing about the new printer is being loaded at startup (just uncheck it)

**Killen** · 23-03-2009

is it saying diskette drive 0 seek failure ,or
DISK DRIVE 0 SEEK FAILURE?
if it's DISK DRIVE 0 SEEK FAILURE, time to run some hard drive diagnostics, and backup your important data. you may need a new hard drive.

**T.J.** · 23-03-2009

It sounds like a hardware failure rather than software. I guess (by the
F1/F2 prompt) that you are getting this message just after it has gone
through POST checks (memory checks etc) before Windows starts to boot?

If so, it sounds like you have a faulty floppy disk drive. You could try
disabling it within the BIOS and seeing if that helps, if you still have
a problem try disconnecting the floppy drive.