HDD FAIL.

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » January 12th, 2008, 13:36

right, so i got a new hard drive. however, after putting it in and placing all the right wires, my computer fails to detect it. i suspect it needs drivers. now what do i do? thanks in advance as usual,

Mr. Johnson.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 12th, 2008, 13:51

is it seen in the bios?

If so, go control panel > admin tools > computer management > drive stuff.

or something.

Post by **Dog Pants** » January 12th, 2008, 13:51

What flavour of HDD is it? SATA will need some poking (I've not used them so I don't know what, but there are other threads about it). If it's an IDE drive then your BIOS should detect it automatically, but they can be finnicky about combinations of optical drives and other hard drives.

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » January 12th, 2008, 13:58

SATA.

tech-savvy friend didn't understand it either.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » January 12th, 2008, 14:31

I don't believe HDDs need drivers. It would kill the purpose really.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 12th, 2008, 14:32

Baliame wrote:I don't believe HDDs need drivers. It would kill the purpose really.

Kinda.

however, SATA controllers often need drivers (and SATA needs to be enabled in the bios)

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » January 12th, 2008, 14:46

However, windowz SP2 normally is fine with it's own default Sata ones.

I'd go for bios and check it's enabled.

Post by **Dog Pants** » January 12th, 2008, 14:58

Sata's coming! I know him!

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » January 12th, 2008, 15:43

BIOS says it's enabled. strange.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 12th, 2008, 15:55

poke about with sata looking settings?

also, try different sata ports.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » January 12th, 2008, 16:01

What mobo do you have?

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » January 12th, 2008, 16:28

AMD K8N Neo2-54G

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » January 12th, 2008, 16:47

Drivers on here:

http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func ... rod_no=587

Just in case.

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » January 12th, 2008, 21:38

berk's suggestion of messing with the control panel worked, cheers!

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 12th, 2008, 21:44

Mr. Johnson wrote:berk's suggestion of messing with the control panel worked, cheers!

The Incredible... · Post by **The Incredible...** » January 13th, 2008, 17:13

ooh where did you get it and what make?

i had pretty much this problem this week too.

i know when i first bought this computer it didn't have sata drivers, and neither did windows, had to download em separate on a floppy and do the press F6 to install third party sata/raid drivers thing when installing windows. last time i made a SP2 slipstream copy of windows and stuck some sata drivers on that and it worked but that didn't work with the new drive.

i gave up in the end, filed an RMA and sent it back, hopefully i'll get a new working one this week

mine was a western digital caviar 250gb drive bought from ebuyer.com

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » January 13th, 2008, 17:30

The Incredible... wrote:ooh where did you get it and what make?

i had pretty much this problem this week too.

i know when i first bought this computer it didn't have sata drivers, and neither did windows, had to download em separate on a floppy and do the press F6 to install third party sata/raid drivers thing when installing windows. last time i made a SP2 slipstream copy of windows and stuck some sata drivers on that and it worked but that didn't work with the new drive.

i gave up in the end, filed an RMA and sent it back, hopefully i'll get a new working one this week

mine was a western digital caviar 250gb drive bought from ebuyer.com

Really, unusual for WD's to be duffers, I've had nothing but good experiences with them over the last few years.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 13th, 2008, 17:32

buzzmong wrote:Really, unusual for WD's to be duffers, I've had nothing but good experiences with them over the last few years.

/8 odd running 24/7

Post by **HereComesPete** » January 13th, 2008, 17:53

I conker, nothing but good things for WD. Not the cheapest for you average HDD, but really bloody reliable. And if you've got the monies a raptor or two is worth it. You sure it's not your mobo fucking stuff up the incredible...?

Also, was the drive definitely initialized in drive management? It may be that everything else sees it, but it wasn't actually doing anything.

The Incredible... · Post by **The Incredible...** » January 13th, 2008, 18:05

i'm not entirely sure, it might be me or my mobo. but i tried everything berk said and didnt get any results, it was not being detected on boot up, where it usually pops up the channel name and the name of the drive it just said no devide detected. tried it on both sata ports