Win7 "No Drives found" SATA drive

If you can get the HD to show up in BIOS after trying Doc's steps, then run Seatools extended diagnostics/repair CD scan: SeaTools Seagate

Let us know the results.

Go to page 28 of the manual, Using BIOS.

You can download manual from acurasd link in post 5.

theog said:

Go to page 28 of the manual, Using BIOS.

You can download manual from acurasd link in post 5.

I finally found the manual. http://www.ecs.com.tw/dlfile/manual/...(1.0B)_low.pdf
Standard CMOS Setup shows no hard drives detected. Only the CDROM on Primary IDE Slave.
I don't know how to access the "Standard CMOS Setup" displayed on p.28

While re-seating the HD connections, I noticed the signal wire on the HD seating was loose.

I could see a tiny nick in the plastic next to the connection, and it seems as though some plastic above or below the 7-prong connection may be missing, as the prongs were just exposed above and below.

I tried to secure the connection with a little shim to keep it tighter in the socket area. There was no change in drive recognition of course.

Any comments on whether this is enough to trash a drive and produce the results I have, i.e. no hd detection. Seems plausible to me.

I guess I'm in the market for a HD. Any suggestions. SATA vs IDE?

Any possibitlity to recover data from such a damaged drive? The damage seem so slight, I would think it repairable. Maybe not.

Thanks everyone for you help.

DocBrown said:

Do you have any spare / extra SATA Data cables you can swap out to see if your nicked cable is bad ?

It wasn't the cable that was nicked, it was the seating on the HD that showed a nick on the edge.
I don't have any cable anyway.
Thx

DocBrown said:

I had a student bring me a 80gb SATA HD that had all the plastic broken away from the 7 pin area on the HD. I think because they were trying to force the data cable onto the connection the wrong way. When putting a new data cable on the right way, it was too loose to make a solid connection. So I plugged the HD into a Rosewill HD docking unit. The fit was tight & secure for the data pins. Then connected it to the desktop to recover all the important data files.

Newegg.com - Rosewill RX-DUS100 2.5" & 3.5" SATA to USB2.0 & eSATA Hard Drive Docking Station


Not sure if your HD is in this bad of shape, so I would like to see some other members ideas as why it still might be detected.

If it comes down to a new HD, go with a SATA HD as that is the new standard. IDE HDs are slowly getting phased out.

Thanks for the docking unit suggestion. I don't have another SATA HD to compare it to, but I think is "that bad." I'm gonna run the HD&cable by a tech store to compare, to another.
Thank you again.