New HDD problems please help

JamesTuc

JamesTuc

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I'm building a computer for a friend and have put the following together:

£85.10 x 1 - XFX ATI Radeon HD 5750 XXX 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
£76.59 x 1 - OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 (1333MHz) Low-Voltage Dual Channel (OCZ3G1333LV4GK)
£70.63 x 1 - Asus M4A88TD-M EVOUSB3 AMD 880G (Socket AM3) DDR3 microATX Motherboard
£41.69 x 1 - AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 245 2.90GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail
£34.03 x 1 - Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ)
£31.48 x 1 - Corsair CX 400W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-400CXUK)
£22.97 x 1 - Asus TA-D21 Midi Tower Case - Black
£11.91 x 1 - Samsung SH-S223CBEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM


The first time I tried to boot to install Windows I heard a very loud clicking from the HDD. Individual clicks every second or so. The HDD wasn't recognised by the machine so I tried it in mine. I initialised it and formatted it creating a single partition. The drive appeared to be working normally and I copied a 2.5GB folder fine.

I then switched the HDD back into my friend's new pc and installed Windows no problem. I then installed some utilities and other useful programs and restarted the pc. I got the clicking again and the HDD was not recognised.

Has anyone else had similar problems? Or is there something obviously wrong with the build?

I'd really appreciate any help.

Thanks

PS: I also tried using my HDD in my friend's pc, this booted without any issues into my OS.
 
I've formatted the memory stick and all that is on there is F3.exe

When I boot to the usb stick all I get is:

Remove disks or other media.
Press any key to restart
_
 
This is driving me insane. I can now load into dos, I'm using the 98 ones.

It loads up and I type F3.exe and it shows:

SFLASH V5.32 SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd. (C)2000-2009
>>C:\F3.EXE @23:03

When I then reeboot there is no change to my hard drive and I still can't see it in the BIOS.

I've also tried booting into windows on my pc with the HDD attached and running F3.exe but nothing seems to be working.
 
No, the HDD isn't recognised by the BIOS. Any idea how I can get the BIOS to recognise it? I don't know what happened that allowed me to install Windows in the first place.
 
All sorted now, thanks :) I booted with the drive powered but with not SATA cable connected. Booted into bios and plugged in SATA cable then Ctrl+Alt+Del and back into bios to see that drive was recognised, Ctrl+Alt+Del boot to USB and run F3.exe

So ridiculous that this had to be done
 
Is it worth me writing a how to on sorting this problem? It doesn't seem many people have had it or there would be more information lying around
 
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