SATA problems

Geon106 · 2007-11-23, 20:48

Brought a new 500GB SATA drive, but am having issues installing it, neither BIOS nor POST detect a drive and I am unable to install drivers as i have no floppy drive. How can you get the computer to detect it?

SATA is enabled, the drive is fully plugged in.

risu · 2007-11-23, 20:58

If your mobo supports only SATA (not SATA-II or III) there's a jumper on some HDD that force HDD to use only SATA-I. Some bioses also have an option to emulate SATA drives as IDE but it's not your current issue since you don't even get bios to recognise your drive.

Hildebrandt · 2007-11-23, 22:24

Stupid question/remark - did you enable the SATA controller in BIOS??

Geon106 · 2007-11-23, 23:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hildebrandt

Stupid question/remark - did you enable the SATA controller in BIOS??

Yes.

The drive works fine in my other computers, although only 137GB is recognised.

felo · 2007-11-24, 01:38

Hello!
Chek for the HD Software in theyr site, i installed my new WD 160GB wednesday, but i did need the "Data Lifeguard Tools" to make Windows recognice the Hard Disk.
Windows only recognice 137GB, the Software will make Windows to recognice the drive and the 500GB.
Cheers!

Marcusb · 2007-11-24, 01:51

depending on your motherboard and your sata controller (silicon image, promise, etc) there are different methods.

When you set up and enable RAID/SATA in the BIOS the drives may not show up as regular drives in the POST but will show up in the RAID BIOS, after the post.
If your motherboard is more than a year old, this may explain why you can't see it. Inside the RAID settings there should be an option for SATA or RAID functions, make sure this is SATA.
On newer motherboards, the drives appear in the usual place, where the PATA drives are also detected but only if set to IDE and not RAID in the BIOS.

You only need a floppy to set up the drives if you are installing Windows on a SATA/RAID drive. If Windows is already running, then you should only need to make sure that hardware manager can see the controller and then activate and format the drive in administrative tools/computer management/disk management.

2007-11-23, 20:48	#1 (permalink)
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risu Portal Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 257 Thanks: 17 Thanked 18 Times in 16 Posts Country: My System	If your mobo supports only SATA (not SATA-II or III) there's a jumper on some HDD that force HDD to use only SATA-I. Some bioses also have an option to emulate SATA drives as IDE but it's not your current issue since you don't even get bios to recognise your drive.

2007-11-23, 22:24	#3 (permalink)
Hildebrandt Portal Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 78 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Stupid question/remark - did you enable the SATA controller in BIOS??

2007-11-24, 01:38	#5 (permalink)
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2007-11-24, 01:51	#6 (permalink)
Marcusb Super Moderator Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Melbourne Posts: 1,909 Thanks: 61 Thanked 27 Times in 27 Posts Country: My System	depending on your motherboard and your sata controller (silicon image, promise, etc) there are different methods. When you set up and enable RAID/SATA in the BIOS the drives may not show up as regular drives in the POST but will show up in the RAID BIOS, after the post. If your motherboard is more than a year old, this may explain why you can't see it. Inside the RAID settings there should be an option for SATA or RAID functions, make sure this is SATA. On newer motherboards, the drives appear in the usual place, where the PATA drives are also detected but only if set to IDE and not RAID in the BIOS. You only need a floppy to set up the drives if you are installing Windows on a SATA/RAID drive. If Windows is already running, then you should only need to make sure that hardware manager can see the controller and then activate and format the drive in administrative tools/computer management/disk management.