What's wrong with my HDD

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       #31

    No.
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       #32

    Here's a shot in the dark, go into bios and take it out of ahci mode and change it to ide, then set the hdd to auto, do the same with unknown decice which will be you cd/ dvd drive, save and exit. This will allow you to not use the ahci controlller drivers. You should be able to boot the computer now and see the drives in explorer
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       #33

    Check for power on the Sata Power Cables.
    Y= 12v
    R= 5v
    O= 3v
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       #34

    1Bowtie said:
    Here's a shot in the dark, go into bios and take it out of ahci mode and change it to ide, then set the hdd to auto, do the same with unknown decice which will be you cd/ dvd drive, save and exit. This will allow you to not use the ahci controlller drivers. You should be able to boot the computer now and see the drives in explorer
    How do I do everything from then set.

    theog said:
    Check for power on the Sata Power Cables.
    Y= 12v
    R= 5v
    O= 3v
    How do I check this.
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       #35

    After you've done the bios the computer should boot from the c;/ if there is an os installed
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    1Bowtie said:
    After you've done the bios the computer should boot from the c;/ if there is an os installed
    Yea did it, but it didn't boot and is not detecting what is on either channel.
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       #37

    So is that it, its my SATA controller?
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       #38

    It sounds like you don't have drivers installed for your sata controller. When you put it in IDE mode you are bypassing the SATA controller which is how i have mine setup, but it has to be set up in bios. My next question is do you have your Win 7 disk?
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       #39

    You do not need Sata Controller Drivers in BIOS.
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  10. Posts : 61
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       #40

    1Bowtie said:
    It sounds like you don't have drivers installed for your sata controller. When you put it in IDE mode you are bypassing the SATA controller which is how i have mine setup, but it has to be set up in bios. My next question is do you have your Win 7 disk?
    Even if I did, the Disk Drive is kapoot, I have the files on a USB, but like I said I can't install anything.
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