Hard Disk problem

[Newcomer]

I have a fujitsu hard drive. When I boot Bios detects the hard disk but it cannot access it. In the setup screen in CMOS I try the autodetect feature, it again detects the hard drive but cannot read its size. The Bios detects the Hard disk's name but the name isn't really correct. BTW that is my primary hard drive, I have another slave hard drive which is detected. They are IDE hard drives. Now to return to my problem it detects the name of the hard drive something like this Fujitsu MPR3XXX etc. The XXX before were really some numbers. Is this hard drive dead? I again reinstalled Windows to the secondary hard disk and windows setup says that this hard disk cannot be accessed. What should I do?

[beeboy]

I dont know about the Fujitsu site but Maxtor, Seagate, or Western Digital have tools to diagnose hard drive problems. And was this hard drive previously working fine with windows on it?

[sniperfav]

you sould make sure the hard drive is jumpered to master. to do this open up the case and take the hd out and check the pins accordint to the diagram that comes taped on and sometime engraved on the hard drive.