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| 1106935 | 2010-06-05 01:28:00 | Hi all . I've read somewhere before that Win 7 is currently not compatible with SATA 3 6 . 0Gb/s Hdds . Is this this true? I installed a Western Digital Black SATA 3 harddrive and Win 7 is not picking it up in My Computer . I had Win 7 installed a WD Black SATA 2 drive . Is this because they are not compatible? The SATA 3 drive does show up in the ASUS MB BIOS, just not in Windows . I bought the system from XP Computer Warehouse . The person there told me he isn't aware of any problems with SATA 3 and Win 7 . Maybe he's right and I haven't done something correctly? I currently have them on 1 SATA power cable, the hdd (SATA 2 500Gb) is the primary drive, while the 1Tb SATA 3 is set as the secondary drive . Thanks, appreciate any help . |
zqia014 (13726) | ||
| 1106936 | 2010-06-05 01:32:00 | I think so. You may have to wait for SP1 before SATA 3 works | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1106937 | 2010-06-05 02:05:00 | Is it initialised and formated? Does it appear in disk management? |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1106938 | 2010-06-05 06:21:00 | I'm a bit embarrassed to say that all I had to do was format the drive in the Storage Manager. I just installed Win 7 yesterday so not very familiar with it at all, have been using XP for the last 5 years. |
zqia014 (13726) | ||
| 1106939 | 2010-06-05 06:31:00 | Thanks for posting your solution. It may help others. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 1106940 | 2010-06-05 06:34:00 | Good to hear it's going. | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
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