Hey guys,
I recently bought 2 new hard drives, exactly the same, the maxtor plus 10 300GB SATA drive, and in windows setup it just cannot recognize the SATA drives, "windows did not detect any hard drives" now it says this at the very beginning of the setup.
Now i had a sata drive on here before, and i am using the same method of connection as i did the old drive, so it should work, but i did not install it last time so have no idea how it was installed.
I'll just list everything i have tried so far,
Checked the connection cables, the power, and to hear if the hard drives were spinning, which they were, and also heating up showing that they were working.
Tried swapping the SATA cables around several times in case they were not working
Checked the bios, which surprisingly didn't show any sata hard drive options even when i connect the old working drive (where it registered the old drive in POST in startup, but not the new), it only shows the cdrom as the primary master, and nothing else relating to hard drives.
Checked my motherboard for sata jumpers, looked in the manual, no sata jumpers.
Checked my hard drive jumpers, according to the manual, it is defaulted for working home use, and it checked out right on the drive too. but i am really don't know enough about hard drive jumpers, so i could be wrong.
I created a floppy 6 disk windows xp setup and used the motherboard driver disk, still didn't detect the drives.
I upgraded the bios with flashmenu from abit and tried the steps above again to make sure that its not the bios' fault.
Tried just adding one drive to complement my old drive, computer restarts on boot (blue screen of death shows for a slight second before restart).
I tried running a windows ME startup disk, and running FDISK, fdisk did not read any drives present.
I tried Running MaxBlast 4 and it wouldn't detect the disk.
i am really stuck at this point, i have no idea what to do. i have a working old sata drive so there should be no reason i cannot install these. if there’s anything else you can suggest that will make my motherboard see this drive, i will try it and tell you the results. Thanks.
I recently bought 2 new hard drives, exactly the same, the maxtor plus 10 300GB SATA drive, and in windows setup it just cannot recognize the SATA drives, "windows did not detect any hard drives" now it says this at the very beginning of the setup.
Now i had a sata drive on here before, and i am using the same method of connection as i did the old drive, so it should work, but i did not install it last time so have no idea how it was installed.
I'll just list everything i have tried so far,
Checked the connection cables, the power, and to hear if the hard drives were spinning, which they were, and also heating up showing that they were working.
Tried swapping the SATA cables around several times in case they were not working
Checked the bios, which surprisingly didn't show any sata hard drive options even when i connect the old working drive (where it registered the old drive in POST in startup, but not the new), it only shows the cdrom as the primary master, and nothing else relating to hard drives.
Checked my motherboard for sata jumpers, looked in the manual, no sata jumpers.
Checked my hard drive jumpers, according to the manual, it is defaulted for working home use, and it checked out right on the drive too. but i am really don't know enough about hard drive jumpers, so i could be wrong.
I created a floppy 6 disk windows xp setup and used the motherboard driver disk, still didn't detect the drives.
I upgraded the bios with flashmenu from abit and tried the steps above again to make sure that its not the bios' fault.
Tried just adding one drive to complement my old drive, computer restarts on boot (blue screen of death shows for a slight second before restart).
I tried running a windows ME startup disk, and running FDISK, fdisk did not read any drives present.
I tried Running MaxBlast 4 and it wouldn't detect the disk.
i am really stuck at this point, i have no idea what to do. i have a working old sata drive so there should be no reason i cannot install these. if there’s anything else you can suggest that will make my motherboard see this drive, i will try it and tell you the results. Thanks.
