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Title: SATA Hard Drives
Post by: OOZ662 on November 04, 2006, 12:47:26 PM

Now is it just me, or aren't these supposed to be kinda "Plug and Play?" As in you plug in the power, then the data cable, and off it goes, just like an ATA drive without jumpers?

I've got a Barracuda HD here that simply won't show up on boot. Power and data are connected snugly and it spins up when the system powers on, but the POST doesn't show as the system having a hard drive.

Title: SATA Hard Drives
Post by: Balsy on November 04, 2006, 01:17:45 PM

Enabled in BIOS???

Title: SATA Hard Drives
Post by: Schutt on November 04, 2006, 01:48:30 PM

I also had trouble with a sata drive, diffrent cable fixed it.

Title: SATA Hard Drives
Post by: Irwink! on November 04, 2006, 03:16:01 PM

Try going into cntrl pnl/admin tools/computer management/disk management and see if it is recognized in there. It may be listed as foreign disk or unitialized disk. The fact that disk management can or cannot see it should help narrow things down a little.

Title: SATA Hard Drives
Post by: Kev367th on November 04, 2006, 05:12:17 PM

If its a SATA2 drive on a SATA1 interface you have to force the drive to SATA1 mode.
Be a jumper on the drive you have to move/add

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/ref/sata_jumpers.html

Title: SATA Hard Drives
Post by: OOZ662 on November 04, 2006, 06:28:57 PM

It's this drive (http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822148066) on this board (http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813131527).

The POST shows that there aren't any SATA devices listed. Disk management only listed IDE drives (Primary master, secondary master, ect) if I recall.

Title: SATA Hard Drives
Post by: OOZ662 on November 05, 2006, 07:06:06 PM

I've gotten the POST to show the disk now, but Windows Home SP2 Setup won't recognize it.

The HD came with a CD that I'll have tomorrow, but no floppy to use with Win Setup, not to mention there's no floppy drive on this computer. I could hook one up if need be.

EDIT: Kinda OT here; anybody know a good bootable (and free) program for copying entire hard drives? I'm not planning on using it on this computer, so no need to warn me about how drivers and ect. wouldn't work. :aok

Title: SATA Hard Drives
Post by: Kev367th on November 05, 2006, 09:38:00 PM

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Originally posted by OOZ662
I've gotten the POST to show the disk now, but Windows Home SP2 Setup won't recognize it.

The HD came with a CD that I'll have tomorrow, but no floppy to use with Win Setup, not to mention there's no floppy drive on this computer. I could hook one up if need be.

EDIT: Kinda OT here; anybody know a good bootable (and free) program for copying entire hard drives? I'm not planning on using it on this computer, so no need to warn me about how drivers and ect. wouldn't work. :aok

It won't.

a) Goto your mobos website
b) Get the SATA drivers
c) Create a floppy disk with the drivers on
d) During XP setup press F6 when prompted.

Title: SATA Hard Drives
Post by: OOZ662 on November 06, 2006, 12:10:51 AM

Figured tha'd be it, but I was hoping. Righty then.

EDIT: Looks like the only related things there would be a BIOS update or the RAID driver, but I don't want to set up a RAID configuration. Is that what I would use, though?

Title: SATA Hard Drives
Post by: Kev367th on November 06, 2006, 08:10:08 AM

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Originally posted by OOZ662
Figured tha'd be it, but I was hoping. Righty then.

EDIT: Looks like the only related things there would be a BIOS update or the RAID driver, but I don't want to set up a RAID configuration. Is that what I would use, though?

Either use it is a standalone JBOD, or set it as a single RAID 0, same thing in this case.

Title: SATA Hard Drives
Post by: OOZ662 on November 06, 2006, 10:50:38 AM

I'll give it a shot. Thanks.