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Need help with SATA drive

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btcomm1

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I just bought a Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200KS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive.

I pluged in the Sata power connector also the data cable, when I boot I don't see the drive listed and when I go to windows disk management it's not there either.

This hard drive has 2 power connectors. One is standard and one is Sata power connector does it possibly need both or did they put that on there for choice? Also I already have 2 ATA hard drives in the machine can you have SATA and ATA?
 
You can have both SATA and ATA drives...

For the power connector for SATA, you use one or the other... If you use both that might cause some damage (or so manufacturers say)...
 
Thanks for the reply, what do you think is wrong then? I hooked up the data and the power and it's not showing up in the bios would it be in a special area or would it be listed where the other drives are?

Crap and slow it down Purduery? 🙁

Is that because my mobo might not support 3.0 gb/s?

Also, I don't think this came with a jumper, I hope not because I don't know where it could be.
 
Originally posted by: btcomm1

Crap and slow it down Purduery? 🙁

Is that because my mobo might not support 3.0 gb/s?
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Yes, but it won't slow it down. Hard drives can hardly even saturate an IDE connection
 
Originally posted by: btcomm1
Do you know if this would have even come with a jumper?
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Did you get an OEM? Then most likely not. However usually I have a few extra lying around from old HD's or cases/mobos
 
I've read that this drive is supposed to have technology to make it very quiet. I'm a little scared because I think it's a bit tooo quiet. I really hope this is not DOA out of the box but I'm wondering if it's even spinning up. I guess what I'll do is unplug the mobo and just plug in the drive to see if I can hear it spin up. Unless you would advice against that.

Have you had any experience with a drive like that?

At this point I've tried both kinds of power connectors, not both at the same time and I can't heard it over the fans.

Yeah it's OEM.
 
Originally posted by: btcomm1
I've read that this drive is supposed to have technology to make it very quiet. I'm a little scared because I think it's a bit tooo quiet. I really hope this is not DOA out of the box but I'm wondering if it's even spinning up. I guess what I'll do is unplug the mobo and just plug in the drive to see if I can hear it spin up. Unless you would advice against that.
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That shouldn't be a problem, however it should spin up with the data cord attached anyway.
 
Hehe, I don't know what I was thinking, without the mobo plugged in it doesn't send the signal for the PSU to turn on haha. How would I do this? I assume I probrably wouldn't want to unplug the mobo while the PSU is on.
 
Originally posted by: btcomm1
Hehe, I don't know what I was thinking, without the mobo plugged in it doesn't send the signal for the PSU to turn on haha. How would I do this? I assume I probrably wouldn't want to unplug the mobo while the PSU is on.
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The drive should spin up with just the power cord in
 
I put a jumper on pins 5 and 6 and I'm getting a new screen in the bios. Where in my bios would it show the drive though?

Also it's not showing up in windows under computer management.
 
Ok, so here is the thing. I do get a new screen it says Serial_CH0 WDC it says push tab to put it in a raid aray. I pushed tab and sure enough it see's the drive. See's it as 298 GB's says it's Serial_CH0 Maser. However when I boot with the windows cd it doesn't show it in there as unpartitioned space. Also when I boot windows it doesn't show the drive anywhere, doesn't even show it under computer management where I remeber an unformated drive has shown up before. What am I mssing?
 
Ok, I'll give it a try.

Do you think oncei it's formatted I could boot off the windows cd and install windows on it?
 
Originally posted by: btcomm1
Ok, I'll give it a try.

Do you think oncei it's formatted I could boot off the windows cd and install windows on it?
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you could do that now if you wanted to most likely
 
Ok, here is an update. I did a bios update to the latest one and in the bios it lists the SATA as a SCSI I think. Now I have in the device manager a ? Raid controller. I think I just need that and windows will see it.
 
Does your Windows install disc have SATA drivers? Versions before SP2 need a third party driver for SATA disks. You can get one from your motherboard manufacturer's site.
 
Well, I thought mine would be up to date enough to have SATA drivers but perhaps it doesn't. It does have SP2 on it though.

Also I tried downloading and installing

Version 4.10A 2004/08/19 update
OS Win98SE / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Win2003
Description VIA VT8237 SATA RAID Driver Package Version 4.10A.
File Size 11.32 (MBytes)

However after I install this windows just sits on the windows XP screen forever.

Do you think this is what I would need to be able to see the drive in windows?

Or is there a driver from Western Digital that will work? I didn't see it on the website.

I also don't understand why that sata raid driver makes my computer fail to boot since that driver is listed for my specific mobo at asus.com

It's an A8V-E delux
 
No one has any more suggestions?

I'm still at the same point. I install the Raid driver from the Asus website and then windows won't boot anymore. Just sits on the windows XP screen forever.
 
Just skimmed the thread... but put aside Windows for a mo' and concentrate on getting the drive properly enabled in CMOS Setup. Poke around the controller options and don't enable RAID if that is not the intention.
 
You were right thank you. I changed it from RAID to IDE mode and it shows up in the Bios in the right place and when I go to install windows it's right there.

Only other thing I was wondering is even after I changed it to IDE mode it didn't seem to show up in windows.

Also is there a way to disable the raid controller completely so that it doesn't show up in the Device manager with a question mark?
 
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