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Tumbleweed36 · 11-06-2007, 10:48 AM

Sata drives are quite often just not making connections with the ribbon cable. So, make sure that yours is.....I use cable ties on mine that I sell to make sure they don't wiggle loose which is quite common.

Does it see the drive in the bios setup menu of just not later on? Have you enabled Sata in the Bios setup menu? Did you load drivers at the F6 prompt? Many of these drives require that.

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Tumbleweed36 Asst Manager Hardware Join Date: May 2005 Location: USA Posts: 19,626 OS: XP Professional	Re: New WD hard drive not detected !! Sata drives are quite often just not making connections with the ribbon cable. So, make sure that yours is.....I use cable ties on mine that I sell to make sure they don't wiggle loose which is quite common. Does it see the drive in the bios setup menu of just not later on? Have you enabled Sata in the Bios setup menu? Did you load drivers at the F6 prompt? Many of these drives require that. __________________ ---------- I don't receive email notifications of replies to subscribed threads. (Internet provider policy) Therefore, if I don't respond to your post within 24 hours, please send me a reminder PM and include the link to your thread.