SATA Drive won't detect.

Hoboslayer

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Hi. Today i received my Western Digital SE16 WD2500KS to replace my current Maxtor IDE hard drive. So I disconnect my old hard drive, put in the new one, and put my windows xp cd in the drive to format and install windows-but.. no, my bios does recognize that my SATA hard drive is connected. I've checked and rechecked the connections, tried two different SATA cables, and still nothing. I've given up hope. :( Can anybody tell me why this might be failing to recognize?

thanks ahead of time.
 

Hoboslayer

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Once again, ty for the help. :) I'll have to dust off the old floppy drive. Hopefully it still works.
 

Hoboslayer

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Okay, I've ran the ASUS floppy image on the disk, but what do I do now? I tried running it from the command prompt in Win XP setup, but that didn't work.
 

Fardringle

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Boot from the Windows XP install CD like normal, and when the setup screen says "Press F6 if you need to load a third-party SCSI driver), press F6 and put the floppy in the drive so that Windows can load the SATA controller driver from the floppy disk.
 

Hoboslayer

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Well, not only will it not detect in the windows installation, but neither in the BIOS.

I did the F6 thing and selected the right WinXP SATA controller drivers for the Windows XP setup but the drive does not appear on the list when it asks which partition/hard drive i want to install windows on.

I'm beginning to think this hard drive is dead. It makes no noise, vibrations nor heat when I boot up. I've tried both the molex and the SATA power cables, and several different SATA data cables, still no response from the hard drive.

RMA time i guess :p
 

stevty2889

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What motherboard do you have? My WD 3G drive wasn't being detected on my via chipset motherboard, there is a jumper setting to force it to SATA 150 for boards that don't support SATA II. After installing the jumper, the drive was recognized and worked normaly.
 

Hoboslayer

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I have an ASUS A8V deluxe which features the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset. I do not know for a fact whether it supports SATAII. I've looked at the specifications and it does not mention anything about SATAII, so that may be my problem. However the drive was purchased OEM and did not come with a jumper. Could I just pull one off my other IDE drive? Or is there a SATA specific type of jumper?

Thank you again for you time everyone
 

Hoboslayer

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Okay i guess it's the same jumper universally. I put the jumper in the correct position as shown on the WD web site to force it to run in SATA 150 mode, and still, absolutely no response from the hard drive. Really thinking the hard drive is kapoot.