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About a month ago i bought a Maxtor Diamonmax sata b-grade from here and it didnt work for me. I chalked it down to it being a dodgy hd to begin with and just returned it, but now a brand new Seagate Barracuda is not working on me and im stumped for whats wrong.
My thread explaining what happened with the maxtor is here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17569147
Basically it was working at first and then it went a little haywire, and i suspect it somehow fried my 20gb hard drive as they were on the same power cable. The maxtor was dead but the pata just kept alarming and stopping the pc from booting.
My new 7200.10 320gb Sata arrived today, so i hooked it up on a seperate power cable but i got nothing. It wasent detected in the bios, or in windows or even in the Seatools diagnostic bootdisk. So i changed sata cables and sata ports on my nforce4 motherboard, and tried using a different sata power adapter (my psu uses an adaptor to add in sata power cables) and on a different cable from the psu.
As far as i can tell the hard drive is spinning up fine, it's generating a heck of a lot of heat compared tomy other drives anyway but nothing is detecting it. What im wondering now is if its possible that all my SATA ports are fried or something like that. Has anyone had problems like this or does anyone have any ideas that i can try bearing in mind i dont have another sata pc to test it in at hand?
My thread explaining what happened with the maxtor is here http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17569147
Basically it was working at first and then it went a little haywire, and i suspect it somehow fried my 20gb hard drive as they were on the same power cable. The maxtor was dead but the pata just kept alarming and stopping the pc from booting.
My new 7200.10 320gb Sata arrived today, so i hooked it up on a seperate power cable but i got nothing. It wasent detected in the bios, or in windows or even in the Seatools diagnostic bootdisk. So i changed sata cables and sata ports on my nforce4 motherboard, and tried using a different sata power adapter (my psu uses an adaptor to add in sata power cables) and on a different cable from the psu.
As far as i can tell the hard drive is spinning up fine, it's generating a heck of a lot of heat compared tomy other drives anyway but nothing is detecting it. What im wondering now is if its possible that all my SATA ports are fried or something like that. Has anyone had problems like this or does anyone have any ideas that i can try bearing in mind i dont have another sata pc to test it in at hand?