- Dec 25, 2004
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I've been trying to get my BIOS / Vista to see my eSATA hard drive all day. When I plug the drive (in an enclosure w/ eSATA port) into the motherboard's built in eSATA port, nothing happens. I've turned the computer off, then powered the hard drive on THEN turned the computer on. I've gone into the BIOS and changed it from IDE to SATA to AHCI mode and I've tried setting it to SATA GEN I and SATA GEN II and disabled, but Vista AND the BIOS never see the drive.
I know it's working because I tried the enclosure and hard drive in a different system and they both work.
Anyone have any advice on this? Could my eSATA port be dead?
Edit:
My motherboard uses 975X and ICH7R. It's a Shuttle SD39P2 XPC barebone.
This is the hard drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148144
The hard drive had a jumper on it, but I took it off. The little diagram on the drive showed that the current position it was in was to disable SATAII and run at SATAI. When there's no header it runs at SATAII. At least that's what I remember the diagram saying.
This is the enclosure:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817715002
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I know it's working because I tried the enclosure and hard drive in a different system and they both work.
Anyone have any advice on this? Could my eSATA port be dead?
Edit:
My motherboard uses 975X and ICH7R. It's a Shuttle SD39P2 XPC barebone.
This is the hard drive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148144
The hard drive had a jumper on it, but I took it off. The little diagram on the drive showed that the current position it was in was to disable SATAII and run at SATAI. When there's no header it runs at SATAII. At least that's what I remember the diagram saying.
This is the enclosure:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817715002
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General Hardware is not the Technical Support forum. Moved to Tech Support.
AnandTech Moderator