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| Thread ID: 72391 | 2006-09-11 07:56:00 | where's my hard drive? | joemac (9739) | Press F1 |
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| 483931 | 2006-09-11 07:56:00 | G'day all. I have just powered up a computer that I put together.It has a SATA 160g seagate HD and it is not being recognised or found even in the BIOS.And just to make things interesting I am going to install Ubuntu and not windows, which is where I am having the problem because I can't instal it if it can't find the hard drive.Cheers for any help. | joemac (9739) | ||
| 483932 | 2006-09-11 08:03:00 | Stupid questions, but often fixes the problem!! Did you plug the power and data cables in? are they loose? is the drive set to SATA I (not II) if your motherboard can only run SATA I? |
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| 483933 | 2006-09-11 10:24:00 | how do I set it to sata one? Its a new mobo (asus A8V-MX) and the HD is plugged into the number two sata slot(of four) I will try it in one and see what happens.When I started it up for the first time it wouldn't go until i realised that I had the power button lead in the wrong place so I will check all that again. | joemac (9739) | ||
| 483934 | 2006-09-11 10:37:00 | Okay, tried moving the leads around to no avail. | joemac (9739) | ||
| 483935 | 2006-09-11 11:08:00 | I just looked at the specs and it is SATA II so you don't need to worry about jumper settings. Does the drive actually spin up? can you hear ir? |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 483936 | 2006-09-11 11:44:00 | is sata enabled in the bios? | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 483937 | 2006-09-11 11:46:00 | that is a good question because I can't fin d anything at all ao the bios setup except for a mention in the boot order list | joemac (9739) | ||
| 483938 | 2006-09-12 04:35:00 | Ok I have just replaced the power cable to the HD and it is now showing in the BIOS but it is not being detected by either Ubuntu or BartPE:badpc: | joemac (9739) | ||
| 483939 | 2006-09-12 06:34:00 | If you put in just a normal Windows CD does it come up then? | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 483940 | 2006-09-12 06:46:00 | I don't have one. Could I make one from my other computer? how? Is there any way I can connect my laptop up to it and try something (I don't know what?) | joemac (9739) | ||
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