URGENT!! troubles with a seagate Momentus 5400.2
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URGENT!! troubles with a seagate Momentus 5400.2
its a: ST9120821AS my computer will not recognize it (desktop) and the seagate drivefinder utility won't either... i have tommorow evening to try and see if i can get it to work... this is urgent and all helpful ideas appriciated. I will have to return it on monday if i can;t get it working...
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If it doesn't show up in the BIOS you should do the regular checks :
- is the IDE cable correctly fitted
- try an IDE cable that works for sure
- try the other IDE plug on the mobo
- check if the master/slave/cable select switch is correctly selected on the hard-drive to accomodate for 2 hard-drives on the same IDE cable if that is the case.
- check in the BIOS if the IDE port is disabled (in case you are not using the regular one)
EDIT: ahemmm, it seems you have a SATA drive judging from the following comments, so me and my off-topic advices will get back to formating my IDE drive now that it cares to appear in the BIOS after a glitch crashed the main partition.
- is the IDE cable correctly fitted
- try an IDE cable that works for sure
- try the other IDE plug on the mobo
- check if the master/slave/cable select switch is correctly selected on the hard-drive to accomodate for 2 hard-drives on the same IDE cable if that is the case.
- check in the BIOS if the IDE port is disabled (in case you are not using the regular one)
EDIT: ahemmm, it seems you have a SATA drive judging from the following comments, so me and my off-topic advices will get back to formating my IDE drive now that it cares to appear in the BIOS after a glitch crashed the main partition.
Last edited by Le_Gritche on Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:25 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Since I don't know what motherboard you have or whether or not you've had previous SATAs installed, I'm shooting in the dark here, but look around in your BIOS for your SATA controller information. In my AMIBIOS setup, it's under Integrated Peripherals. First, in my computer, there are two IDE controllers: the "On-Chip" one and the "OnBoard Promise" one. I set the OnBoard Promise IDE to Disabled since I'm not using it. Under On-Chip IDE Configuration I had to do some trial and error stuff to figure out things that work. I ended up with:
- Native Mode (Legacy Mode is if your operating system doesn't recognize SATA yet).
- SATA Only (I have no PATA devices)
- PATA Keep Enabled = No
- SATA Ports Definition = P0-1st/P1-2nd
- Configure SATA as RAID = No
You'll probably have to play with your system's equivalents to figure something out (assuming this is the problem).
- Native Mode (Legacy Mode is if your operating system doesn't recognize SATA yet).
- SATA Only (I have no PATA devices)
- PATA Keep Enabled = No
- SATA Ports Definition = P0-1st/P1-2nd
- Configure SATA as RAID = No
You'll probably have to play with your system's equivalents to figure something out (assuming this is the problem).
the board i am using is an msi http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813130529
its a SATA drive... do they even have jumpers?
its a SATA drive... do they even have jumpers?