WD3200AAJS 320GB HD not recognized until accessed from DOS

Thank you so much for the information. It’s all begining to make sense.

I looked and I did have a jumper on the drive, which I don’t have one on my others, so I took it off.

I get the same results though, as I said, I changed something via software. I downloaded the program from

Hitachi and it did not work, it wouldn’t change the settings of the drive, only show them. I guess it has

to be Hitachi?

Well, I am on the quest for a utility then…