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    SATA Drive not showing up.

    So, I am at it again. I can't seem to make it appear. My MOBO has two sata connectors, but it seems that there is no info on the HP site regarding SATA, seems like they maybe have it on the board, but maybe it's not active, or not working right. I did run a dual boot with Ubuntu and XP Pro...
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    SATA Drive not showing up.

    That's what I thought. in regards to the enclosure. Even though it is a sata to usb enclosure, does that completely render the sata fact inert. Or could it still factor in to it not working. Even if it was not formatted correctly or such( which should not be the case, I was running a dual boot...
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    SATA Drive not showing up.

    Thanks. So, I'm not missing something. Sata IS a bit quirky right? It's only a 60GB drive so once my files are off it won't bother me too much to let it ride off into the sunset
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    SATA Drive not showing up.

    I am running an HP PAvilion a 620n, running Win XP Pro, and have a Hitachi Deskstar 80GB SATA drive. My previous pc mobo died, and I am simply trying to access this drive to get some files off of it. It will not show up when connected to the mobo connector. I also tried plugging it into an...