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February 19, 2008 at 6:27 pm #544781

THE JESTER
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Hi

I bought a Sata HDD to use for all my samples/loops . I attached the cables into there respective places as instructed in the manual . But …

I cant get it to recognise in windows or bios ?
I know its plugged in right because the raid section of the bios is showing it connected .

Ive been to disk management , It aint there .

Its the first time i have had to deal with sata drives so im a bit stuck .

Is there something i must do in bios ?

Any help will be appreciated .

Thanks

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February 19, 2008 at 6:27 pm #643722

THE JESTER
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Hi

I bought a Sata HDD to use for all my samples/loops . I attached the cables into there respective places as instructed in the manual . But …

I cant get it to recognise in windows or bios ?
I know its plugged in right because the raid section of the bios is showing it connected .

Ive been to disk management , It aint there .

Its the first time i have had to deal with sata drives so im a bit stuck .

Is there something i must do in bios ?

Any help will be appreciated .

Thanks

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February 19, 2008 at 8:16 pm #643737

djshadesuk
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I too have yet to experience SATA HDs but the first thing I would do, as you rightly suggest, is check your BIOS settings. It may be entirely feasible that while your BIOS can see the SATA drives they may be hidden (disabled) from the OS.

My BIOS allows you to enable/disable the USB ports, on-board sound, on-board graphics, IDE devices and many other things too. I guess this is to save resources. For example I use a third-party soundcard so I switch off the on-board sound resulting in less hardware running and of course less drivers/software running too.

Shades

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February 19, 2008 at 8:59 pm #643739

Luminance
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I just dealt with this over the weekend when I was setting up my sata drive. Are you connecting directly to your motherboard or are you using an adapter? Also, make sure that your interfaces match up. For instance, my motherboard was SATA I compliant but my hard drive was SATA II. I had to put a jumper on pins 5 and 6 to make it work with SATA I (it’s different for all hard drives but that’s the scheme for Western Digital). The other thing you can do is go to your hard drive manufacturer’s website. Western Digital had a utility that would configure your hard drive for you. It was very helpful. Hope some of this helps.

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February 19, 2008 at 9:17 pm #643741

djshadesuk
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Sounds like better advice than mine!

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February 20, 2008 at 4:05 pm #643794

THE JESTER
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I’ve sorted it ! Whey Hey

The bleeding bios was raid enabled , meaning i had to disable it before the drive could work in standard mode

Was seriously thinking of taking the drive back and getting an IDE aswell .

Thanks anyway guys for the quick responses !

Cheers

Joe

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February 20, 2008 at 7:43 pm #643807

badboyc
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good info i want a sata

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