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Old 03-19-2008, 09:41 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Hard drive dead?

I am building a new PC and have got it up and running with an IDE harddrive. I'm trying to add a SATA drive.

I have hooked it up right and it does spin when I power up the PC. I set up the BIOS (to my knowledge) correctly. When the PC starts up it shows the IDE drive as the Channel 0 master (I have loaded windows on it and it works fine). But when it loads the Channel 2 Master it just shows as blank. Like it sees the harddrive but it doesn't want to do anything. I did set up the jumpers on the HDD for 1.5 phy. As that is what my motherboard supports.

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Biostar K8M800 Micro Socket AM2 Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ Socket AM2 CPU
WD Caviar 750GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G
2x 1024MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHz
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Old 03-19-2008, 11:05 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Hard drive dead?

Can windows see the drive?
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Old 03-19-2008, 11:39 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Hard drive dead?

have you set it to be seen as ide in the bios
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Old 03-19-2008, 11:46 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Hard drive dead?

Windows cannot see the drive and I have it SATA set as IDE.
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Old 03-19-2008, 12:07 PM   #5 (permalink)
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see if you can see it in disk management,if so format it and windows will then see it
if it's not in disk management it probably requires a driver to be loaded with f6
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Old 03-19-2008, 12:11 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Shouldn't bios see it? Or something instead of a blank entry in ide channel 2? Also I'm not trying to install windows on this drive. Just add it for storage at the moment.
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Old 03-19-2008, 12:27 PM   #7 (permalink)
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the bios will not see it on a ide channel if it is a sata drive,it will be listed under sata
the bios setup varies between m/b manufacturers and models you need to check your manual for an accurate discription of the setup proceedure
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