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Title: Hard Disk not detected
Post by: savagegod7 on September 07, 2009, 04:51:14 AM

Hi Friends,

I have purchased a new Seagate Barracuda 250 GB SATA Hard Disk for my Desktop. It seems this new HD is not detected by PC. Previously i was having Seagate 120 GB hard disk which is burned and not usuable now. My system is AMD Athelon 64 bit processor with MSI motherboard VIA K8M800-CE + VT8237R chipset. It will support Raid0 or Raid1. I have a raid floppy disk with me. It used for my old HD, i don't know whether the new HD required any other Raid. When i try to install Windows XP 2, as usuall it will ask for Raid and i have inserted the floppy. Sytem is reading from flopy but unable to detect KD. Please help.

Thanks and Regards

Title: Re: Hard Disk not detected
Post by: patio on September 07, 2009, 06:57:34 AM

Did the Seagate ship with a CD with diagnostic SeaTools on it ? ?
If the drive is not formatted it will not be recognised.
The SeaTools are available at their website FREE.

Does the BIOS see the drive ? ?
If not then you need to install the SATA drivers for it.
These will be available at the MBoard manuf. site...

Title: Re: Hard Disk not detected
Post by: squall_01 on September 07, 2009, 07:12:37 AM

In other words is the drive partitoned?  All drive are shipped with out them an you have to creat them.  ;)

Title: Re: Hard Disk not detected
Post by: patio on September 07, 2009, 07:36:29 AM

It has nothing to do with partitions...it needs to be formatted if it isn't...
Of course partitions can be created but that is not the issue...
You're also ignoring the fact that it may be missing SATA drivers as well.

Title: Re: Hard Disk not detected
Post by: squall_01 on September 07, 2009, 07:43:03 AM

you never know till you do one thing first.

Title: Re: Hard Disk not detected
Post by: patio on September 07, 2009, 08:07:55 AM

Quote from: squall_01 on September 07, 2009, 07:43:03 AM

you never know till you do one thing first.

The suggestions i gave ARE the first things to try...in that order.

Title: Re: Hard Disk not detected
Post by: Allan on September 07, 2009, 11:53:13 AM

Quote from: squall_01 on September 07, 2009, 07:12:37 AM

In other words is the drive partitoned?  All drive are shipped with out them an you have to creat them.  ;)

What does creating partitions have to do with ANYTHING?

Title: Re: Hard Disk not detected
Post by: squall_01 on September 07, 2009, 01:56:48 PM

try to boot from it then?  ;) unless your useing windows an it makes them for you

Title: Re: Hard Disk not detected
Post by: Allan on September 07, 2009, 02:02:30 PM

What are you talking about?

Quote from: squall_01 on September 07, 2009, 01:56:48 PM

try to boot from it then?  ;) unless your useing windows an it makes them for you

What are you talking about?

Title: Re: Hard Disk not detected
Post by: patio on September 07, 2009, 02:07:27 PM

squall if you see some of your posts dissappearing randomly you'll know why...

patio.

Title: Re: Hard Disk not detected
Post by: squall_01 on September 07, 2009, 02:26:16 PM

which explains why my reply back is gone to him.  What did I do?

Title: Re: Hard Disk not detected
Post by: patio on September 07, 2009, 02:28:21 PM

Nothing.
It simply wasn't helpful to his predicament.
Think things out when posting advice.

Title: Re: Hard Disk not detected
Post by: savagegod7 on October 07, 2009, 03:55:13 AM

Thanks my friends. I used the jumber clip. It is working now........

Title: Re: Hard Disk not detected
Post by: patio on October 07, 2009, 08:16:41 AM

Thanx for stopping back to let us know...glad you are fixed up...