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    new sata drive not working

    just got this drive courtesy of scan, nice fast delivery but...

    i can't get it working.

    atm i have an IDE drive and i'm trying to get this new sata drive to work but it doesn't look like it's being detected. it's not appearing in my computer, nor in disk management.

    any ideas?

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    Re: new sata drive not working

    Does it appear in the bios?

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    Re: new sata drive not working

    If you have motherboard with SATA 150 then your hard drive might need a jumper to turn it from SATA 300 to SATA 150.

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    Re: new sata drive not working

    Nope it doesn't appear in the BIOS and I'm pretty sure my motherboard supports SATA 300.

    I didn't want to mention it because I think I already know the answer but when I tried to install vista onto it, it stopped halfway through the installation, saying I was missing files or something and that all the installation files would be removed - or something to that effect.

    Ever since that happened, I haven't been able to install Vista on it again, as it doesn't come up in the box when I'm asked to select a hard drive...

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    Re: new sata drive not working

    Help please...?

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    Re: new sata drive not working

    Can you hear it power up when your machine boots?
    Have you tried connecting it to a different SATA port on your motherboard?

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    Re: new sata drive not working

    Could it possibly be the cable?

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    Re: new sata drive not working

    Are you sure the ports enabled in your bios

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    Re: new sata drive not working

    Hard drive is whirring when I start the pc up.

    SATA is enabled in the bios.

    I've tried changing the port the SATA cable is plugged into.

    The thing is I know it *was* working, because I was installing Vista on it - but then the installation stopped halfway through, and now it isn't working.

    It's not plugged in atm, I tried for ages last night to make it work :/

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    Re: new sata drive not working

    Hearing how it did work and now doesn't seems like you broke it. Can you try it in a different machine?

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    Re: new sata drive not working

    Nope, this pc is the only one that supports SATA.

    It does seem that way doesn't it... although I'd rather think that it was the Vista installation that buggered it up

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    Re: new sata drive not working

    Try changing the drive cable. Installing an OS system on it is unlikely to cause it to disappear ffrom the bios. Either the cable is damaged/not connected correctly or the drive has failed.
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    Re: new sata drive not working

    I'll probably need to buy a new cable then - thanks for the help.

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    Re: new sata drive not working

    Reset BIOS and try again.
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