raptor help

paradisiac

paradisiac

paradisiac

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hi, just go a WD1500ADFD 150GB Raptor HDD. windows detects it fine and i can transfer files to it and format it ok. so i went to use acronis to clone my current HDD over to the raptor but acronis doesnt detect the drive. so not to worry, will try a fresh install, but again, windows 7 installation wont detect the drive either. its showing up in the bios fine and will work fine in windows.

any ideas?
 
well i tried paragon and that gave I/O errors and suggested a chkdsk, which i did and that said it was fine. downloaded the acronis wd edition off western digitals site and that doesnt recognise the drive either, tried to run their lifeguard software and it errors saying the cable is faulty, but its worked with other drives fine. im stumped now.

what i have noticed though, is in lifeguard my samsung sata drive says IDE after the model number and the raptor says SATA, possible driver issue maybe, but then why would windows see it and use if fine?
 
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Have you actually changed the cable and re-ran the lifeguard tools?
Is it plugged into the raid ports on the mobo? If it is, you will have to press a key during installation and then install the drivers seperatly.
 
yeah tried all of that and no go. so i tried installing xp, and that finds the drive fine, so must be a windows 7 thing. problem is, the AHCI drivers need to be on a floppy disc for xp, and i dont have one :(
 
will the raptor run at full potential with sata set to ide?

also, is xp pro good enough these days or am i better trying to find out how to get it to work on windows 7? if so, any ideas whats going on. i found the vista ahci drivers, tried to install vista, it finds the drivers, loads them from usb stick, but still cant see the raptor. is starting to get frustrating. also,ideally i would like it to be 64bit still so i can up my ram if required, remember xp64 having a few issues when i last used it.
 
Do you have a hard drive boot priority setting in your BIOS? Its normally seperate to the boot priority setting, obviously you'll want the CD/DVD drive to be the primary drive in that setting.

If so, check that the raptor is set to be the first drive in the hard drive list.

Also stick to Windows 7.
 
it was the only drive connected, its setup exactly the same way when i tried install xp, vista and 7, xp is the only one that detects it.
 
Well did you try using nLite to add the drivers to a windows XP install?

At least then you can get XP on.
 
it comes up with the no drives detected and gives me an option to load drivers, have tried on 3 different motherboard and none of them will find the drive after i install the AHCI drivers on either vista or win7, yet xp does fine. is really wierd.
 
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