New Harddrive not detected.

Brutalfate · Jul 22, 2007

Hey, today I put together a PC for my grandma, these were the parts:

Pentium 4 641 3.2Ghz
ASUS P5GC-MX
1GB generic DDR667
Nvidia 7100
160GB Sata II HDD

I cannot seem to get the pc to detect the harddrive, i have tried using different sata ports, cables etc. i've even tried booting into Win Xp using a spare IDE HDD and trying to detect it through Disk managment. The HDD definatly works, because I am able to detect it on my PC.

Any ideas whats up?

Dippyskoodlez · Jul 22, 2007

Does it show up in the BIOS?

If it does, you have to format/partition it before you can use it.

Try using the CD that came with it.

Mediocre · Jul 22, 2007

Brutalfate said:
Hey, today I put together a PC for my grandma, these were the parts:

Pentium 4 641 3.2Ghz
ASUS P5GC-MX
1GB generic DDR667
Nvidia 7100
160GB Sata II HDD

I cannot seem to get the pc to detect the harddrive, i have tried using different sata ports, cables etc. i've even tried booting into Win Xp using a spare IDE HDD and trying to detect it through Disk managment. The HDD definatly works, because I am able to detect it on my PC.

Any ideas whats up?

Im corn-fused...

Brutalfate said:
I cannot seem to get the pc to detect the harddrive

But....

Brutalfate said:
The HDD definatly works, because I am able to detect it on my PC

?? I can't figure out whats really going on but....

If it's a Western digital, try some of the data tools they have. I believe its called data lifeguard.

Also,

I had the same issue with a SATA drive though, and it ended up that the wife's motherboard only supports SATA150. I had to change the jumpers on the back of the drive.

Have you tried the add hardware wizzard?

Brutalfate · Jul 22, 2007

Dippyskoodlez said:
Does it show up in the BIOS?

If it does, you have to format/partition it before you can use it.

Try using the CD that came with it.

It doesn't show up in BIOS

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Haha, sorry Mediocre, its been a long day and im half asleep

. What i meant is, that the New 160Gb HDD works in MY computer, however it does not work in the computer im building for my grandma.

Mediocre · Jul 22, 2007

Brutalfate said:
It doesn't show up in BIOS .

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Haha, sorry Mediocre, its been a long day and im half asleep . What i meant is, that the New 160Gb HDD works in MY computer, however it does not work in the computer im building for my grandma.

Cool, had that same problem with the wife's PC...It booted xp on IDE, but wouldn't see sata for install or in my computer.

IT was 2 problems - first was the sata150 thing, but even that only made it show up in bios, still missing from windows...

I had to get the WD program (sata150 drive was WesterDigital, IDE was maxtor). I boot windows on the IDE (with the sata drive plugged/powered) and ran the data lifegaurd. I did a clone of the IDE onto the SATA (when it was installing first thing it did was load something that made it popup as a new device, then it cloned the drive)...After the clone I powered down, disconnected the IDE (left the sata alone), and re-booted. Powered right up and booted fine

What kind of drive is it

francis511 · Jul 22, 2007

r there any sata/raid drivers u need 2 install ??

Brutalfate · Jul 23, 2007

I'm pretty sure there isn't any Raid/sata drivers... I've been through the whole M/b manual, didnt help one bit.

The drive is a 160GB Segate Barracuda (7200.10) Sata II.

nora.e · Jul 23, 2007

if you need to instal an os onto the new drive, make sure you've got your cd drive as the first to boot in bios. if it's trying to boot from an unformatted, blank HDD it wont show. I just installed the same drive in 320 gig last night and had same issue, checked my boot order and that took care of it. once the os is installed, don't forget to change your boot order back to HDD first.

Brutalfate · Jul 23, 2007

Yeah, I'm booting off the Cd drive, when i try to install windows, the only HDD that shows up is the IDE one. The Seagate doesn't

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DRDNA · Jul 23, 2007

Brutalfate said:
Yeah, I'm booting off the Cd drive, when i try to install windows, the only HDD that shows up is the IDE one. The Seagate doesn't .

double triple check the jumpers to the config on the harddrive label.

Widjaja · Jul 23, 2007

If you have a spare SATA try that one on Grannies PC to see if it recognises that one.

Lol doing things accoring to the manual and it still doesn't work.
One of the things that pissess me off the most.

Ahhh the proccess of elimination.

I had the same problem but it was the SATA300 to SATA150 jumper job and disabling SATA raid rom in the BIOS I think.
But that was for my motherboard.

Looks like it maybe something to do with BIOS unfortunatley I'm not familiar with that one.

Grannie's motherboard supports SATAII

nora.e · Jul 23, 2007

have you tried only having the Seagate plugged in bu it'sself and unplug the EIDE?

Brutalfate · Jul 23, 2007

Widjaja said:
If you have a spare SATA try that one on Grannies PC to see if it recognises that one.

Lol doing things accoring to the manual and it still doesn't work.
One of the things that pissess me off the most.

Ahhh the proccess of elimination.

I had the same problem but it was the SATA300 to SATA150 jumper job and disabling SATA raid rom in the BIOS I think.
But that was for my motherboard.

Looks like it maybe something to do with BIOS unfortunatley I'm not familiar with that one.

Grannie's motherboard supports SATAII

Just tried my 80GB WD Sata HDD in it, was unable to detect that too..

Haha, I've even been through Seagates "Serial ATA troubleshooters guide", checked to see if the BIOS was configured correctly, jumpers were in the right place, made sure that the SATA controller drivers were installed and up to date, checked hardware compatibility...

It should work!

Grrrrr. so annoyed.

btw - thanks for all your support guys.

Brutalfate · Jul 23, 2007

nora.e said:
have you tried only having the Seagate plugged in bu it'sself and unplug the EIDE?

Yeah, same problem, nothing is detected..

Brutalfate · Jul 23, 2007

Okay.. now im starting to think that the Sata ports are dead.

ex_reven · Jul 23, 2007

hey dude.
is your board SATA II compatible?
If not you need to move the jumper on the hard drive to suit SATA I configuration

edit - woops, just read your above post :ohwell:

Wile E · Jul 23, 2007

Perhaps a BIOS update is in order?

francis511 · Jul 23, 2007

Brutalfate said:
I'm pretty sure there isn't any Raid/sata drivers... I've been through the whole M/b manual, didnt help one bit.

The drive is a 160GB Segate Barracuda (7200.10) Sata II.

some mobos have a a sort of raid driver that you can just install..otherwise you would have to use like "update driver" for a sata driver.is anything showing up under device manager?like even "unknown device"

bacardi9966 · Jul 23, 2007

ummm was the psu on when you hooked the power into the harddrive? becuase that would fry it. happened to me before =[

DRDNA · Jul 23, 2007

bacardi9966 said:
ummm was the psu on when you hooked the power into the harddrive? becuase that would fry it. happened to me before =[

ya harddrives are not exactly hotswapable but I have seen it done and have done it before....in no way would I recomend doing it.

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