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Originally Posted by Oceanborn
Hi, assuming your new HD is not defective, what I can advise you is this...your motherboard has 4 SATA connectors, 2 in the Intel Southbridge (ICH5) and 2 attached to the Promise RAID controller(Lower part of the MOBO), try enabling the Promise Comtroller in the BIOS(if it isn't already) and attach the Maxtor to the SATA RAID 1 on the promise controller and see what happens.
Make sure when you enable the Promise controller in the BIOS that you put it as IDE and not as RAID.
Hope this will help
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Oceanborn,
Thanks for your response, appreciated. I’ve resolved this issue. It was annoyingly simple and had nothing to do with any advice I’d been given by the HDD supplier, my PC manufacturer or anyone else who tried to help.
When I put the new 200GB HDD in my PC I used the mobo supplied twin SATA power cable as this was the only power-in option on the Maxtor. For the sake of neatness I also replaced the old white power plug on the WD 80GB 10,000 rpm drive, which has 2 power-in options, with the other tail of the SATA power lead.
And this was the problem. In desperation, having tried everything else I replaced the power cable to the WD HDD with the original white block 4 pin supply. Bingo. BIOS recognised all attached drives immediately and then it was a matter of configuring BIOS to boot to the proper drive. Is this crazy or what? There is probably some rational explanation, but frankly how anyone can logically work this out is beyond me.
Thanks again for your time and trouble.
Biofos.