- May 28, 2005
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My friend was building a computer, everything was going well but there is some kind of problem with his SATA drive.
It is pluged in correctly, (now) but the bios does not seem to think it is there, it can't find it.
I found this out after doing the f6 thing to install the SATA driver to load XP, I went into the bios to set up the hard drive as a SATA, and there was no hard drive showing with the rest of the IDE stuff (cd roms).
SO I then hooked it up to my computer...my bios can find it, but the hard drive does not show up in windows under my computer. (I already have 1 SATA HD, so it should be showing up after I turned it on in the bios right? There is nothing else I need to do is there?)
But anyway, it shows up in my bios, but not his, and I can't find it under my computer.
I do have some fear that it might have been fried...When I took a look at it was hooked up to the power supply using both the connections on the hard drive. SATA power connection and legacy or something like that I think (it said on western digitals website that hooking it up to the power supply using both of those connection could damage the HD)
So long story short, is there something wrong with the HD, is there anything else I need to do to get the hard drive to show up on my computer in windows, and is there anything I can do to get the bios in my friends computer to see the hard drive so XP can be loaded?
Here is the link to his mother board.
http://www.asrock.com.tw/Drivers/Manual/K7Upgrade_880.pdf
I am stumped, any help would be great!
It is pluged in correctly, (now) but the bios does not seem to think it is there, it can't find it.
I found this out after doing the f6 thing to install the SATA driver to load XP, I went into the bios to set up the hard drive as a SATA, and there was no hard drive showing with the rest of the IDE stuff (cd roms).
SO I then hooked it up to my computer...my bios can find it, but the hard drive does not show up in windows under my computer. (I already have 1 SATA HD, so it should be showing up after I turned it on in the bios right? There is nothing else I need to do is there?)
But anyway, it shows up in my bios, but not his, and I can't find it under my computer.
I do have some fear that it might have been fried...When I took a look at it was hooked up to the power supply using both the connections on the hard drive. SATA power connection and legacy or something like that I think (it said on western digitals website that hooking it up to the power supply using both of those connection could damage the HD)
So long story short, is there something wrong with the HD, is there anything else I need to do to get the hard drive to show up on my computer in windows, and is there anything I can do to get the bios in my friends computer to see the hard drive so XP can be loaded?
Here is the link to his mother board.
http://www.asrock.com.tw/Drivers/Manual/K7Upgrade_880.pdf
I am stumped, any help would be great!