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Computer won't recognize SATA drive
archonwarp
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I just put in a new motherboard, RAM, and CPU, and now my SATA harddrive isn't being recognized. I still have my main PATA drive, but I want to switch over to my SATA, as it's much faster and not two years old. It also has files on it that I want to start using. I've checked the power and SATA connector multiple times and I still can't figure out what's wrong. Anyone have any ideas? I'm using Windows XP.
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Just my story here in case anyone in the future has this issue. Vista's 35% done expanding its wang files all over my hard drive's satagina so I'm a happy duck.
There were no drivers available for the board aside from ICH9R and other RAID drivers, so I would have to assume they're built in.
And... could you have a really old IDE ribbon cable?
I installed the motherboard's drivers, which I know included a SATA driver (or at least a RAID driver, so probably). I'd really like to not lose the data on the drive, but if I have to, that's fine; I simply want the drive to work. I tried to detect the driver multiple times using device manager's auto-find feature. Is there another way to 'force' detection?
What I had to do when I ran into the same issue, is load the drivers onto a floppy, and then boot up my machine with the XP disc, like I'm reinstalling. Watch the prompts, and make sure to choose to boot with drivers for an SATA drive. Do so, and then restart without actually reinstalling XP, and your drives should be accessable.
If it's being installed in windows that's already running, you may need to either run the software utilities that came with the drive or use the disk management tool in windows to assign it a drive letter and partition/format it.
Right click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management > find the drive in the list > right click it > assign drive letter. It's possible your CD rom or some other drive is taking the old drive letter. This happens with thumb/portable drives all the time. If it's not in the list at all then windows doesn't see it.
Okay, I tried that and it's not visible. I purposely had set the drive letter to 'Z' in order to ever have any type of conflict, and I only have drives up to 'D' right now anyway. I tried enabling the different SATA modes on my motherboard, but all it did was cause my computer to have trouble booting. It's worth noting that the drive is detected on bootup when I have SATA mode set to RAID, yet the computer doesn't bootup, as I think it tries (and fails miserably) to boot from that drive. Any other advice?