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lensman3 · 01-31-2008, 10:04 PM

Yeah. A marginal power supply won't spin the disk up. As a test unhook your old hard drive and just hook up the new and boot up. Go to the bios and see if it can see the new disk. It won't boot but you should get a message like "insert boot disk".

I have 4 disks and a cdrom in my PC. Three of the disks are hot-swap SATA's. Before I upgraded my power supply, last disk would try to get up to speed, but my Linux system get a "disk not ready error". I would pull one of the other disks out, and the disk would get up to speed and mount.

But first unhook your old disk, both the data cable and power cable. Add the new disk and see if the bios can see it.

01-31-2008, 10:04 PM	#7 (permalink)
lensman3 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Littleton, Colorado USA Posts: 470 OS: xp 64 sp2 Fedora Core 8 (vmware xp core 8 x32) Minix	Re: Bios AND system NOT seeing hard drive Yeah. A marginal power supply won't spin the disk up. As a test unhook your old hard drive and just hook up the new and boot up. Go to the bios and see if it can see the new disk. It won't boot but you should get a message like "insert boot disk". I have 4 disks and a cdrom in my PC. Three of the disks are hot-swap SATA's. Before I upgraded my power supply, last disk would try to get up to speed, but my Linux system get a "disk not ready error". I would pull one of the other disks out, and the disk would get up to speed and mount. But first unhook your old disk, both the data cable and power cable. Add the new disk and see if the bios can see it.