Le_Murphant Posted October 22, 2009 CID Share Posted October 22, 2009 I got a new Seagates 1TB hard drive as a media drive for my computer. I tried plugging it in as a secondary drive and it wasen't recognized. I tried putting it in my new antec external HD enclosure, and the enclosure is recognized as is the usb-to-sata chip and the disc spins up but the hard drive still isn't recognized. Can it be anything else than DOA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brock01 Posted October 22, 2009 CID Share Posted October 22, 2009 have you initialized it in disk management? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted October 22, 2009 CID Share Posted October 22, 2009 Check to see that in the bios the HDD settings are set to IDE instead of sata. Dont ask me, because I don't really get it, but in all the intel boards I put together , thats what I have to do to get it to recognize them sata's. Many times they'll also need to be a setting for a raw drive to "install OS" . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le_Murphant Posted October 24, 2009 Author CID Share Posted October 24, 2009 I tried with both my desktop and my laptop with similar results, and my other external hard drive which is based on an ide drive, works with no problem on both, so I doubt it's a configuration issue. BTW, my laptop is relatively recent so I assume it has a SATA hard drive, which means that SATA would be enabled by default in the BIOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted October 24, 2009 CID Share Posted October 24, 2009 Maybe the drive is "doa" , but your an educated man, by this we know never to assume, anything. Check the jumpers, change cable , change rail on the power supply, check bios as stated in earlier post, if ll else fails, better get that thing back before the return date expires no ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le_Murphant Posted December 24, 2009 Author CID Share Posted December 24, 2009 Thread revival! So I didn't find anything to fix my problem, and decided to RMA the drive, but have been lazy and haven't done it yet. My old 250G hard drive started failing, so I bough a new one, a Caviar Green, also 1 TB that I put into my external enclosure and... it still doesn't work! It installs correctly, the adapter is shown in devices, and the disk appears in device manager, but there is no external storage that appears in My computer so I don't know how to access it. The same happens when I connect it with my laptop. Both computers run on W7. The chances of 2 DOA drives in a row from different manifacturers is close to none, so there must be a problem with what I'm doing, any ideas? I will next be trying to connect the drives directly via sata. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted December 24, 2009 CID Share Posted December 24, 2009 Did you try disk management ? Control Panel / Administrative Tool / Computer Management / Disk Management [ in column on left side ] Right click on the drive you installed and then click Format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le_Murphant Posted December 24, 2009 Author CID Share Posted December 24, 2009 Nop, haden't done it, just read about it. Man, it was hidden, I wish they told you that when you popped the drive in. Trying it out right now, thanks for the tip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted December 25, 2009 CID Share Posted December 25, 2009 Maybe the drive is "doa" , but your an educated man, by this we know never to assume, anything. Check the jumpers, change cable , change rail on the power supply, check bios as stated in earlier post, if ll else fails, better get that thing back before the return date expires no ? SATA drive don't have jumpers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le_Murphant Posted December 25, 2009 Author CID Share Posted December 25, 2009 It's all fixed, and I feel somewhat stupid that the answer was in the first post. I didn't know that a drive had to be initialized at that point, I'm surprised that neither windows, drive makers or external enclosure makers seem to tell you to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted December 25, 2009 CID Share Posted December 25, 2009 At least its running now. We've all made silly mistakes also. It happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted December 27, 2009 CID Share Posted December 27, 2009 SATA drive don't have jumpers. thanks for pointing my mistake out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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