Sata drive not showing up

[danbeaulieu]

Hello, I am wondering why my sata drive wont show up in windows 7, its has xp installed on it but I pulled it out of one machine and put it into my pc with w7 installed and nothing???

asus p5p800 mobo


Dan

 

[DocBrown]

Does it show up in the BIOS setup ?

How about Computer Management :ar: Disk Management

 

[danbeaulieu]

No its not showing up in the disk management window

 

[bobkn]

Hello, I am wondering why my sata drive wont show up in windows 7, its has xp installed on it but I pulled it out of one machine and put it into my pc with w7 installed and nothing???

asus p5p800 mobo


Dan

I don't understand what you're trying to do.

If I read this correctly, you have a PC with Windows 7 installed. (Is that on a SATA HD?) When you try to attach a SATA HD to it, which is actually an XP OS disk, it's not seen in Disk Management.

How about in the BIOS? You should be able to see the physical discs that are attached.

 

[danbeaulieu]

I have a setup with xp installed on a sata.
I have a setup with w7 installed on an IDE.

I would like to put the sata drive from the xp system into the windows 7 setup to transfer files then format. The sata (xp) drive doesn't show up in (w7 unit) bios.

So tomorrow morning I am going to try to flash the mobo with the latest bios, I'll keep you posted.

 

[danbeaulieu]

Flashed the Mobo with the latest bios and still no sata drive. Just fyi, I have an empty 720 gb sata as well which wont show up either.

Any ideas?

 

[1Bowtie]

Hi danbeaulieu and Welcome to Seven Forums

Here's a suggestion, unplug the ide drive, put the sata in with the xp os boot and go strait into bios and make sure the sata is turned on boot up, then come back and let us know if that worked and we proceed to the next step

 

[danbeaulieu]

Thanks for your help guys... I wound up switching power supplies and it booted right up. My 320 gb hd with xp on it works fine... However, the 720 gb drive clicks and then winds down. Once I make it into windows it doesn't show up at all. So I am sure that drive is screwed.

 

[1Bowtie]

Did you also turn on the second sata in bios

 

[danbeaulieu]

no, I only have 1 sata cable at the moment so I just unplugged the 320 and switched it with the 750.
I made up an RMA through Seagate.

 

[DocBrown]

no, I only have 1 sata cable at the moment so I just unplugged the 320 and switched it with the 750.
I made up an RMA through Seagate.

It is always good to have a few extra cables, so you can troubleshoot problems

 

[MindowsWunkey]

Voice of Reason?

Hi Chaps,

I had the same problems, I was asking the oracle (Google) but nothing! It was only when i reached a zen like state of anger and was using my Ninja mind skills on the disk manager that i realsied, something soooo simple that i nearly collapsed into a singularity....... Windows had not yet assigned it a Drive Path/Letter. I promptly right clicked the volume (that wasnt appearing ) and chose

--> Change Drive Letter and Paths <--

I then used the top option and chose a letter, Clicked OK and VOILA!!! i had my 1 Tb Sata Volume in the "Computer" window. I hope this helps a few, let us know how you get on