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SATA problems...hard drive maybe dead

mephiston5

mephiston5

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My friend was building a computer, everything was going well but there is some kind of problem with his SATA drive.

It is pluged in correctly, (now) but the bios does not seem to think it is there, it can't find it.

I found this out after doing the f6 thing to install the SATA driver to load XP, I went into the bios to set up the hard drive as a SATA, and there was no hard drive showing with the rest of the IDE stuff (cd roms).

SO I then hooked it up to my computer...my bios can find it, but the hard drive does not show up in windows under my computer. (I already have 1 SATA HD, so it should be showing up after I turned it on in the bios right? There is nothing else I need to do is there?)

But anyway, it shows up in my bios, but not his, and I can't find it under my computer.

I do have some fear that it might have been fried...When I took a look at it was hooked up to the power supply using both the connections on the hard drive. SATA power connection and legacy or something like that I think (it said on western digitals website that hooking it up to the power supply using both of those connection could damage the HD)

So long story short, is there something wrong with the HD, is there anything else I need to do to get the hard drive to show up on my computer in windows, and is there anything I can do to get the bios in my friends computer to see the hard drive so XP can be loaded?

Here is the link to his mother board.
http://www.asrock.com.tw/Drivers/Manual/K7Upgrade_880.pdf

I am stumped, any help would be great!
 
Hooking up the SATA power connector along with the molex power connector on any hard drive will fry the circuitry. You're f'ed in the a.
 
The mb supports SATA drives and there is a section on SATA drives, and all SATA hds have a note on them stating do not connect both power leads; so there is definitely a possibility its been damaged.

If your pc sees it and sees it correctly in terms model, size etc, it may be useable. The reason you didnt see it Windows (What? XP, 2000) is that it has to imported, formatted etc under Computer Management before it is usable.

So give it one more try, maybe as Drive #2 - be sure to set HDD detection in the bios as Auto


 
Ok, I was able to get the hard drive working on my computer...

So now I guess trying to flash the Bios on my friends computer is the next thing to try. Any other ideas as to what the problem might be? Thanks.
 
I doubt you have to flash MB bios.

See page 38 of Manual: Boot Device Priorty. Before WinXP install, set 1st to CD Rom. Then at 1st Windows install RE-BOOT, go into bios and set 1st to floppy, 2nd to Harddrive.

See page 22: 2.9 Make SATA Driver Diskette. Make this floppy using CD from MotherBoard Mfg. Watch carefully during 1st part of WinXP install about any drivers needed. Press F5 (or whatever, I forget), place floppy in drive, hit Enter. Driver should load. Take it out when loaded.
 
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