Solved Third internal sata not shown

[JIMT]

I installed a 3rd sata internal drive, from my old computer, in new Dell Win7 32bit. Windows will not recognize it. Tried rescan disc in disc manager no luck. Turned computer off and on several times no luck.
Any ideas?
Thanks

 

[theog]

Will the Hd show in BIOS?

Can you post a screen shot of Disk management?
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Screenshot tools.
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[JIMT]

I will shut down and enter BIOS. I believe that is how to do it.

 

[JIMT]

I went into setup and the drive did not show in boot list.

 

[theog]

Check all the cable are good.

 

[dsperber]

I went into setup and the drive did not show in boot list.

As was suggested, have you checked or changed all cables... SATA (data) as well as power supply cable going to the new drive? All connectors pressed in firmly, to drive and motherboard?

Maybe just for an experiment, swap the known-working data/power cables that go to your second SATA drive, temporarily connecting them to your new third drive. Again, get into BIOS setup at boot time and see if the third drive is now visible in the HD list and/or boot sequence configuration for choosing.

Is there a BIOS setting that limits or sets the max number of active SATA connectors on the mobo?

 

[JIMT]

I think maybe you are right about the cable. It started to recognize the drive and then it stopped. I am going to buy a new cable and try it again.
The drive has never shown in the BIOS.

 

[JIMT]

The hard drive is not initialized. When I tried to initialized it said cyclic redundancy error. The drive does not have a letter so I can not access the drive. Should I just throw away the drive?

 

[theog]

Try Initializing the disk.

 

[JIMT]

When I tried to initialized before it said cyclic redundancy error. Now the initialize choice will not react to the right click.

 

[JIMT]

When I tried to initialized before it said cyclic redundancy error. Now the initialize choice will not react to the left click on initialize
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[theog]

I would Check the hard drive with the manufacturer's diagnostic tools.
Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (Storage) - TACKtech Corp.
HD Diagnostic

 

[JIMT]

I down loaded Seagate Sea Tool and the drive failed two of the tests. I guess it time to throw it away.
Thanks for help, it a great service you provide.

 

[theog]

Did try Sea Tools for DOS?

You are welcome.

 

[Britton30]

By all means run Sea Tools for DOS, long test. It will takes some hours to run. I have used it to successfully repair a Seagate drive I had.

 

[JIMT]

Britton,
I had looked at the DOS test and concluded that I have spent too many hours on the drive and won't spend any more. Again thanks for all the time that you have helped me.
JIMT

 

[dsperber]

Britton,
I had looked at the DOS test and concluded that I have spent too many hours on the drive and won't spend any more. Again thanks for all the time that you have helped me.

Is that a 75GB SSD drive, or an ordinary 75GB spinning hard drive, that we're discussing?

If it's an old spinning 75GB hard drive, I'd just toss it without another moment's consideration. You can buy a brand new drive that's 10-20 times as large, quieter, cooler and faster access, at $50-$150.

Your time is much more valuable. Just forget it, and buy a new modern HUGE/FAST/QUIET/COOL drive for a pittance.