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serial ata loose connection? (accidental repeat post)

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ryooki

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I'm running a WinXP system, P4, with a serial ATA drive as my only hard drive. Everything runs fine, sometimes. Occasionally, I'd get a "No Operating System found" error on boot up. Apparently, the bios is not seeing the harddrive sometimes. I reboot, and then everything pops back up to normal. I don't know what's going on. I have a Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 9 HD & Gigabyte MB.

It seems that the cable is kind of loose, but I'm not sure if this is how it's supposed to be. I tried the other cable that came with my mb to no avail. Still having intermittent harddrive missing problems. Once, when I booted up, Windows found a new IDE hardware, mouse, etc... I've tried to reformat/reinstall Windows, and the problems are getting worse.

Is the Serial ATA cable supposed to snap into place? Does the connection normally feel loose?

Thanks for any info

 
Yeah, they're loose. It only took WD one generation to decide they needed to devise some sort of contraption to secure the cable.
 
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