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| Thread ID: 125679 | 2012-07-12 06:00:00 | Friends SATA HDD not recognised. | ChazTheGeek (16619) | Press F1 |
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| 1288062 | 2012-07-12 06:00:00 | Hey folks, my friends SATA HDD is not recognized by the BIOS. It's the primary one so he can't boot into windows XP. His house is run by solar power so they have the occasional power cut, that may have been the problem as power cuts are damaging to HDD's. Or is could have been electrostatic electricity as he um...put the opened up PC on the carpet:horrified. His PSU and SATA connections were thoroughly checked by my friend and myself. It was working till he switched it off then turned it on again. :groan:. Do you people have any fixes?? Thanks. |
ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1288063 | 2012-07-12 06:02:00 | Try another SATA cable or port | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1288064 | 2012-07-12 06:03:00 | I switched around the ports but...I didn't try a different cable/use the DVD cable. I give that one a go. Is there any jumpers on the mobo I should remove or anything, I'm not too sure...just an idea. |
ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1288065 | 2012-07-12 06:07:00 | Is the SATA hdd SATA 1 or 2?? And does the mobo support 1 or 2?? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1288066 | 2012-07-12 06:08:00 | Probably 2, not really sure. How do I find out? I'm not sure if the mobo supports 1 either. |
ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1288067 | 2012-07-12 06:13:00 | Whats the brand/model of the mobo? The only other reason (besides dead . faulty port/cable) the BIOS cant see it, is the mobo supports SATA 1 and the hdd is SATA 2. You have to switch the jumper on the back of the hdd to SATA 1 / SATA 150. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1288068 | 2012-07-12 06:17:00 | The brand of the mobo is probably foxcon or HP as the computer happens to be a HP slimline with an Intel P4 HT :p. I'll see if I can get the mobo model for you tomorrow and post it. I may or may not be able to. I'll also check the jumpers out on the back of the HDD. |
ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1288069 | 2012-07-12 06:21:00 | If it was going before, then its either died or has received a zap. Putting a PC on carpet on its own wont generally do any harm, BUT having the PC on Carpet, and fiddling about inside can cause static damage. The drive may have died, it happens without warning. Two ways to test. Attach the suspect drive to another PC and see if its detected, and/or attach another drive to the friends PC and see if that shows. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1288070 | 2012-07-12 06:26:00 | Thanks guys. I have attached another drive to the PC but it was IDE. I have no way to test the drive at the mo. Do you have a way to recover data? |
ChazTheGeek (16619) | ||
| 1288071 | 2012-07-12 06:30:00 | Yep - depends if the drive spins up or not. If the drive wont even spin up then its gonna be a lot harder. Depends on whats happened as well if the drive spins up. One I used yesterday/day was www.easeus.com the free version only allows you to recover 1GB TOTAL. The paid one does unlimited. Used it to recover data from a drive that had the partition blown away and reformatted, See this thread: pressf1.pcworld.co.nz Theres some free ones about, but you get what you pay for sometimes :p |
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