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[timmattl]

Hi there!

I recently re-installed windows on my 250 gb WD SATA hard drive. I had a 50 gb windows partition and the rest for files. First thing that happened was my system partition wouldn't boot and eventually chkdsk said that the mbr was unrecoverable. A friend recommended that i use a seperate parallel hard drive to load windows and then convert the disk to dynamic in disk management. I did this, but the computer crashed and now windows won't even load with the SATA hard drive connected. The BIOS sees the SATA hdd, but that's as far as I can get. I tried to install windows on the SATA hdd, but the setup won't finish loading with the SATA hdd connected. So, i figure my data is unrecoverable, but why can't I repartition the hdd? By the way, the WD tools boot disks won't load with the SATA hdd connected. I also tried using "PC inspector smart recovery" to no avail.

Can anyone give me some advice to what the problem is or how I can fix it? It would be much appreciated!

[2091]

try the "fdisk /mbr" command... next u got to do a "scandisc /all" on ur harddrive. and i hope, u formated ur hdd on NTFS

mfg

[timmattl]

That won't work because if the SATA is connected, neither windows nor the setup CD will load. I think I'm going to see if WD will replace it for me.

[jamesdm]

if it is in guarantee please USE IT!!! , cause i see that is a friend HD and is DEAD (the HD )

[timmattl]

Well, I got the Western Digital Data Life Guard Tools to boot from a floppy, i tried to "write zeros to the drive", and even that failed with a message that said to call technical support. I called and western digital will ship me a new drive for free.
But thanks for the help.

Matt

[2091]

so u can get a new harddrive 4 free

[iGuest]

i can
Sata Hard Drive Not Recognized By Windows

I can't install windows xp proffessional. The setup showing there is no harddisk. My harddidk is sata. No floppy drive. How can I install xp? pls help me

[dre]

Download Damn Small Linux, which is only 50 mb, copy the ISO to a CD, boot with it and see if it find your hard drive. However, I think this may be a problem with your BIOS, either the hardware itself or bad settings, but still, try that first.

[lhitvietnam]

Hard disk is bad

[lhitvietnam]

Format disk

[tricky77puzzle]

dre, on Feb 27 2008, 07:52 PM, said:

Download Damn Small Linux, which is only 50 mb, copy the ISO to a CD, boot with it and see if it find your hard drive. However, I think this may be a problem with your BIOS, either the hardware itself or bad settings, but still, try that first.

Well, then again, the poor guy(girl?) doesn't have a computer to use. Unless there's an old one he(she)'s using. But yes, download a copy of Linux (either DSL or Ubuntu) and try to run that. If it works, stick with it. Windows costs $200 anyway. Return that copy to them and shove it in their faces with a look on your face that says, "I don't need this, retards*! I've got Linux!"

*Just kidding. You might get sued for that. And by "retards" I mean "people behind on computer development".

Okay, what... this topic is 4 years old! This reply is outdated.

Edited by tricky77puzzle, 22 March 2008 - 03:45 PM.

[iGuest]

Replying to Trap FeedBacker

What you need to first do when you boot from your windows XP disk is install your motherboards SATA/raid controller off the motherboards provided floppy disk.



-reply by Mr Eric

[iGuest]

my sata harddisk is nnot detected during linux installation.
Sata Hard Drive Not Recognized By Windows

First of all check in the BIOS setting that the harddisk is detected, if it is detected do the following

Boot from the linux cd at the installation prompt just type the following code:

#linux pci=nommconf irqpoll all-generic-ide

Friends Please try this and mail comments regarding this.K





-reply by Sandeep S

[iGuest]

Sata drive wont showSata Hard Drive Not Recognized By WindowsThe Sata drives is recognized in the bio and is active. I am booting up with an IDE drive because the SATA drive's windows seems to be corrupt because windows will not load.Any suggestions on how to get this drive to show up in My Computer, I am praying it is not corrupt but I am prepared for the worst.Thanks-reply by imlerrm

[iGuest]

previously xp did not support sata hard disk  ...So u have to use a floppy disk for supply additional sata driver provided by mother board manufacturer...U can use f6 key at loading time to specify sata drivers...If u don't have floppy disk, enquire about xp later editions ,which supports sata drivers...I heard so there is some xp versions that supports sata as boot disk

-reply by serji

[iGuest]

sata harddrive not detected when installing xp and i have no floppy driveSata Hard Drive Not Recognized By Windows

This issue will become more and more apparent as everything migrates to SATA from IDE. First, open your computer case and check to see if you have a IDE or a SATA dvd/rw drive. If its IDE your ok , If its SATA go to bestbuy or walmart and purchase a USB dvd/rw drive ( you can take it back when your done) Once you have your usb drive connected insert your windows xp cd into it. Next, go into your BIOS and find your SATA Harddrive configuration change that to either ATA or Legacy (make sure you save your changes) Reboot and you should be good to go.

-Ballzdeep

-reply by steven

[iGuest]

SATA hell takes me back to the good ol' days of DOS 2.1 and DOS Hell. Every piece of hardware had to load a driver and IRQ conflicts were SOP. Installing SATA on a lmotherboard that has no SATA ports really sucks. Vendor and OEM support is non-existant and thanks to "pre-loaded OS's" there are no boot CDs if you buy from the biggies like HP, Dell, Acer, etc.

In the end SATA is a case of Forward to the past. OK, having said all of that, what is a solution to XP not formating a SATA drive? My solution was to stick in my main system which has SATA ports galore and Vista Business. I formateda SATA drive that way then re-installed it and used Data Guard to copy files across. In a month or 2, I'll try and configure this 320GB drive as the system drive. Vista is being flogged off cheap at the moment so I may just upgrade the OS to cope with SATA.

-reply by Yadnarie

[iGuest]

[font=" monospace; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap"]Try loading 3rd party raid drivers from a floppy. This has worked for me in the past. You will be prompted in the beginning of the setup at the bottom of your screen to press f2. Check Http://www.Driverguide.Com/ for your drivers. These should be installed and copied to your hard drive so there should not be a problem.[/font]

-Reply by Samuel Sullivan

[iGuest]

Sata not detected in OS and in BIOS its thereSata Hard Drive Not Recognized By Windows

Hi all,My Desktop model is Intels D102GGC22 GB RAmSATA Drive 250 GBIDE 40 GB Problem: I have 2 hdd IDE and SATA, I had installed WIN Xp(32 bit) in IDE and win 7 64 bit in SATA, every thing went smooth and I installed win 7 64 bit in my sata. The probelm in whenever I reboot my OS is randomly loaded some time win XP some time WIN 7 for fixing this I edited the MBR it with paragon boot master and given win 7 as my default os but after doing that my MBR got corrupted or don't know what happened. My sata drive is not showing up( even in Xp mode) and win 7 is not loading, if I dis connect my sata drive xp is booting up but when  I connect the sata drive, the XP OS loading is hanging in the OS screen, don't know what happened.Fixes I tried:I reinstalled win Xp in my IDE and updated the BIOS (Flashed).But still my sata is not showing up same problem OS getting hanged when I connect sata. But in BIOS both the hdd is showing up. I even tried to repair it with the installation disk (win 7 64bit) after disconnecting the IDE, the files are getting copied but there is no hard drive found in win 7 installation(in the presence of SATA drive some thing like bootx and file size is displayed). Please help me to recover the data as all my data is in the sata drive. Simply the disk is not showing up I tried in all the 4 sata ports in the mother board but still no progress. Now only my IDE is working. Is there any conflict between 2 hdd as I have installed win xp32 bit in IDE and win 7 64bit in SATA. thanks

-reply by Amrish

 

[iGuest]

Got this to work guys...Sata Hard Drive Not Recognized By Windows

In my particular case sata drive was not being recognized when trying to re-install xp pro... I am working on a Dell XPS 400...

Solution: I changed the sata configuration in the system bios...

1. I hit f2 during boot...

2. Arrow keyed down to sata operation...

3. Changed from Raid/Autodetect/AHCI

4. To... Raid Autodetect/ATA

Problem solved!

Joe Cap

[iGuest]

Same problem Sata Hard Drive Not Recognized By Windows

I am having same problem. I used XP SP 3 dualboot with win 7 Ultimate (32 bits both). I had an external WD 640 GB which was working well. Sudenly stoped to work and now the Bios is just seeing it without recognize and in disk manager is showhn like not initialized and unknown. If I tr to initialize it said device not ready or incorect function . I am dead.

-reply by Petru

[iGuest]

Windows 7 install did not recognize SATA driveSata Hard Drive Not Recognized By Windows

I googled and read this thread for ideas; so I wanted to post my experience here. I tried a number of recommendations.

• I stuck with the SATA BIOS settings because I specifically wanted SATA and not IDE! The drive is a WD Caviar Black 500MB. BIOS seemed to ID the drive ok in the first place.
• I checked all the connections. Used the MB port and cable to the CD/DVD drive that was obviously working for the SATA HD drive to eliminate those as possibilities. No cure there.
• I tied to use the Windows Install disk to load the drivers one at a time. It seemed to do something while loading the drivers but it did not help me install Windows 7.
• I tried to install XP Pro because I owned it too and had installed it successfully on other computers. It failed too.

I then re-formatted the drive using another computer. Finally, I simply copied all the system driver INF files onto the newly formatted drive. Whatever. It worked, I was then able to put the drive back in the new build computer and installed Windows 7 without another glitch.

-reply by Eric

 

[iGuest]

thank you save me alot of time  

-reply by Kendall

[Maggot]

If you are installing windows xp you may require sata drivers for windows to detect your hard disk....

If you have a licensed version of windows you can download a windows installation with sata drivers via torrents....

I have tired it before and it sure does work on hp laptops and desk top computers with sata hard drives.....

Windows 7 will never have a problem...

The problem either lies in your motherboard bios which is not set right or needs a update...
Or the problem is the hard drive....

Try the hard drive on another computer to confirm if its really the hard drive...