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HDD FAIL.
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 13:36
by Mr. Johnson
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.
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 13:51
by Dr. kitteny berk
is it seen in the bios?
If so, go control panel > admin tools > computer management > drive stuff.
or something.
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 13:51
by Dog Pants
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.
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 13:58
by Mr. Johnson
SATA.
tech-savvy friend didn't understand it either.
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 14:31
by Baliame
I don't believe HDDs need drivers. It would kill the purpose really.
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 14:32
by Dr. kitteny berk
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)
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 14:46
by buzzmong
However, windowz SP2 normally is fine with it's own default Sata ones.
I'd go for bios and check it's enabled.
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 14:58
by Dog Pants
Sata's coming! I know him!
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 15:43
by Mr. Johnson
BIOS says it's enabled. strange.
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 15:55
by Dr. kitteny berk
poke about with sata looking settings?
also, try different sata ports.
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 16:01
by buzzmong
What mobo do you have?
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 16:28
by Mr. Johnson
AMD K8N Neo2-54G
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 16:47
by buzzmong
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 21:38
by Mr. Johnson
berk's suggestion of messing with the control panel worked, cheers!
Posted: January 12th, 2008, 21:44
by Dr. kitteny berk
Mr. Johnson wrote:berk's suggestion of messing with the control panel worked, cheers!
Posted: January 13th, 2008, 17:13
by The Incredible...
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
Posted: January 13th, 2008, 17:30
by buzzmong
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.
Posted: January 13th, 2008, 17:32
by Dr. kitteny berk
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
Posted: January 13th, 2008, 17:53
by HereComesPete
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.
Posted: January 13th, 2008, 18:05
by The Incredible...
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