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Originally Posted by justpassingby
Since your system disk is also a sata one, onboard sata is enabled in the bios settings. I don't think there would be another setting to adjust.
There's a page in the bios where you'll see all your devices listed (HDD, cd-rom, ...) and you new disk should appear there. Should also be an option to autodetect the hard drives.
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I can't find the exact page, but looking at boot-up options etc i guessed there was no other hard drive detected as it wasn't listed.
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Originally Posted by justpassingby
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There's 8 jumper pins on mine not four, so what pattern would i use?
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Originally Posted by justpassingby
And yeah, SATAII is not supported by your motherboard. From my experience, a SATAII disk should work on a SATAI motherboard (with the possible jumper set as SATAI), only it will be limited to SATAI speeds, which shouldn't make a big difference. I'll wait for someone else to confirm this however.
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It did come with jumper pins, i was a bit worried initially as no actually jumper bridge was included in what was sent to me (if thats what you call the thing that connects them). I read from several sources you change modify SATA II to work with SATA I at a reduced speed if you put the jumper bridge in the right place. That could be my issue.
My other hard drive (a WD1600 SATA) also currently has pins in it, could this affect anything? I have a feeling it shouldn't because it is seperate from the other hard drive. Seeing as it is a SATA drive and not SATA II if i remove the pins would it stop it from working?
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Originally Posted by crazijoe
SATA may need to be enabled in the BIOS and the drives will not show in the main BIOS screen. The SATA ports are controller by the VIA VT8237R controller.
In the BIOS, under the Advanced menu tab, and under the Onboard Devices Configuration you will need to enable the OnChip SATA. When you save this into the BIOS, another BIOS screen will pop up after the system BIOS. This is for the SATA controller. It will show the drive there.
After you boot into Windows you will possibly need to install the drivers for the SATA controller then Windows will see the drive and you will be able to partition and format it from there.
The drivers should be located on the CD that came with the motherboard.
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I've just checked and OnChip SATA is enabled. I've lost the motherboard disc a long time back and have formatted and reinstalled several times since then using a few drivers i've downloaded off the net, is it possible i could of missed a driver somewhere?
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Originally Posted by crazijoe
Sorry, I missed that part.
Does your current SATA drive show in the BIOS? I just want to make sure you are looking in the right place in the BIOS since the SATA drives will not show in the standard MB BIOS.
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I don't think it does, where would the best place to go be?