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Haridsk not detected in bios-serious problem

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Hi all I have a Pentium D sytem with a ASUS motherboard(P5P800-VM).I was using a and 40GB Seagate IDE harddisk.But 2 months back i purchased an Seagate [email protected] 160GB.at first i attached it to my SATA port of my board and everything went on fine and i installed the os and was using it.Then sumtimes i wasn't able boot my pc ,i get the bios screen but no windows booting.But if i restarted 2ice or thrice I cud boot into OS.Then 1 day i cudnt boot into hard disk and in bios also i cudnt see the HDD.I thought it to be a Harddisk probs and got an replacement from Seagate.But now also,the brand new drive, my board doesnt detect the harddisk.my old ide hardisk(40GB) when i connect is working fine.I wonder what has happened to the SATA 160 GB disk.Plz help .I am a SAP professional and need 160 GB to pracitce SAP which needs atleast 80GB space.
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Hi,

Use the link under my signature area for hard Disk Diagnostics and use the Seatools program there to partition and format this drive. Then, you will be ready to set it up on your computer. Be sure before you try to do this that you read the Sata link under my signature also. Let us know then if you have problems.
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Hi,

It could be an SATA version issue - I am not familiar with this m-board, but looking on the web it appears it only supports SATA ver 1 .. What you MAY have is an SATA II drive, if you could let me know the model number of the drive I will look it up for you..

What you could try is - on the drive label it should Say SATA or SATA 2 in big letters.. If it's SATA II then there is a way of jumpering the drive to SATA I compatibility, check the label again on how to do this..

Mike
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Test your SATA cable or re-attach it on mainboard and HDD
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