SATA HDDs

Greg · 14 May 2007 at 22:04

Ok, I've just opened up my new PC (purchased ready built) and I wish to add my old SATA HDD into it.

Now, I've plugged it into its power socket, and I've plugged the SATA Data cable in but and booted up, but it doesnt seem to be recognised.

please could someone slap me with a wet fish and tell me what I'm doing wrong?!

many thanks

Greg

shine · 14 May 2007 at 22:06

Is your drive showing up in the BIOS?

happy_2008 · 14 May 2007 at 22:57

Would be interested to know this too as i seem to be having the same problem. Which motherboard you using by the way.....? If worse comes to worse both of my HDD's might be dead

Jaffa_Cake · 14 May 2007 at 23:02

Did you activate the disk in Computer management?

happy_2008 · 14 May 2007 at 23:11

If bios doesnt show it then how can it be activated if you get what i mean :confused:

Jaffa_Cake · 14 May 2007 at 23:24

happy_2008 said:
If bios doesnt show it then how can it be activated if you get what i mean

Sorry misread the first post there slightly. Thought it wasnt showing up in windows not in the BIOS.

Not showing up in the BIOS is bad :eek:

Cupra · 15 May 2007 at 00:20

go into bios
and go into raid options
make the drive ide as your using it as a single drive

what motherboard is it

Plasmoid · 15 May 2007 at 01:28

The hard drive manufacturer might have a utility on their website for diagnosing things like this.

Generally its a program that creates a boot disk that searches for the hard drive bypassing the bios in some cases. Maxtor and Seagate have utilities and sure the others do too. (course maxtor and seagate are the same now... how convenient)