SATA Problems.. Big ones!

[Weeeman]

Got myself a WD Raptor 74 Gig..

Had it up and running for a day or 2, and went to turn on my computer last night.. tells me I dont have a HDD.. so I check the wires, take em in/out and it still gives me the same message.. little help?

 

[boomerang]

I would change to a different SATA cable for starters. Don't know if that 's what you meant by take in and out.

 

[Weeeman]

Tried that, no good, doesnt seem to matter.

 

[Algere]

Maybe your SATA settings in the BIOS was resetted. On some motherboards by default RAID is the stock setting and if that was the case then it could explain why your system isn't detecting a stand-alone hard drive.

 

[Weeeman]

Just got done playing around with BIOS.. still saying that nothing is connected the to FastTrack Control port and bios not installed...

It DOES detect my old dell's maxtor HDD [not sata though]

 

[Algere]

Assuming your SATA drive is connected to the Promise Controller and not the other.

 

[Weeeman]

Its connected to PRI_SATA and has power.. what am I missing?

 

[Weeeman]

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