Activating Sata Drive With Windows - bought new drive can't get it working
kevlar557
Jan 11 2006, 01:27 AM
I just bought a Samsung SpinPoint 250 GB SATA hard drive last night from Micro Center. The windows installation disk will not detect it. I have a Abit VT-7 mobo, which does support SATA. I used the included driver floppy to boot with the installation disk, but it refuses to recgonize it. I'm going to try to flash the BIOS, but I wanted to know if ya'll had any other ideas.
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Is the hard drive detected in the bios? Are all the cables connected properly? What OS do you have? If you have raid'ed hard drives and plugged this into the same onboard controller, you also might have some issues there.
Very important this to note is: does the BIOS recognize this hard drive? Is the drive powered? These are stupid questions, but you'd be amazed how often this is the solution to problems...
Give us some more info, what's your OS version (I guess it's Win XP), what other drives you have plugged in...
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