Won't recognize hard drive

2009-08-17 10:26:26

#1

Pepsiholic: Member; +4|6087|Winland

So I just got a new hard drive for my old HP computer which has just stood there without a hard drive for a while. Anyways, I can't instal windows on it cause it won't recognize it. And no it's not in BIOS either.
It's a samsung 160GB spinpoint F1 3.5" SATA II/300 8MB 7200RPM.

2009-08-17 10:27:44

#2

Winston_Churchill: Bazinga!; +521|6999|Toronto | Canada

Is it spinning? Can you hear it going?

2009-08-17 10:29:31

#3

Pepsiholic: Member; +4|6087|Winland

Yeah it is spinning.

2009-08-17 10:30:29

#4

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6714|The Twilight Zone

does the PC see it in hardware harddrive management?

also what OS?

Last edited by .Sup (2009-08-17 10:31:38)

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2009-08-17 10:31:00

#5

Pepsiholic: Member; +4|6087|Winland

Say what? slow down i'm not good with this stuff

2009-08-17 10:32:02

#6

Pepsiholic: Member; +4|6087|Winland

Oh yeah, xp home

2009-08-17 10:32:30

#7

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6714|The Twilight Zone

Pepsiholic wrote:
Oh yeah, xp home

1min going in XP

2009-08-17 10:37:29

#8

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6714|The Twilight Zone

Control panel>Administrative Tools>Computer management>Storage>Disk management
hopefully it finds it then right click and format

2009-08-17 10:38:36

#9

Pepsiholic: Member; +4|6087|Winland

How would u think I can access windows if I can't install it?

2009-08-17 10:41:22

#10

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6714|The Twilight Zone

Pepsiholic wrote:
How would u think I can access windows if I can't install it?

You ran Windows install disk and it didn't recognize it? Btw is this your only desktop PC? What happened with the old drive?

2009-08-17 10:43:38

#11

Pepsiholic: Member; +4|6087|Winland

I booted it up the first time with the disk, tried to install it but couldn't.
No it's just more like a backup pc

2009-08-17 10:44:26

#12

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6714|The Twilight Zone

Pepsiholic wrote:
I booted it up the first time with the disk, tried to install it but couldn't.
No it's just more like a backup pc

where did it stop?

2009-08-17 10:45:22

#13

Pepsiholic: Member; +4|6087|Winland

Like at the point where u select ur hard drive, but there were no hard drives to choose.

2009-08-17 10:47:04

#14

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6714|The Twilight Zone

what kind of hard drive is it?

2009-08-17 10:48:00

#15

Pepsiholic: Member; +4|6087|Winland

Samsung 160GB spinpoint F1 3.5" SATA II/300 8MB 7200RPM.

2009-08-17 10:51:02

#16

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6714|The Twilight Zone

go in BIOS and see if there's an option to switch SATA mode from AHCI to IDE.

2009-08-17 10:52:33

#17

Pepsiholic: Member; +4|6087|Winland

Nope

2009-08-17 10:57:28

#18

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6714|The Twilight Zone

Pepsiholic wrote:
Nope

no option? or doesn't work?

Then you need to download SATA drivers for your mobo and copy them to a floppy drive. I've done that before, had an older Abit NF7s mobo and WD 40GB HDD. Once floppy is loaded you just press F6 when Windows installer starts to load drivers and then pick the correct driver from the list.

2009-08-17 10:59:14

#19

Pepsiholic: Member; +4|6087|Winland

Drivers for a mobo u can't probably find anywhere and a floppy? Who the hell has those things anymore?

2009-08-17 11:06:25

#20

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6714|The Twilight Zone

well then what else is to suggest? Check if (all) cables are well plugged in (data, power) maybe try the HDD in a different system?
read this: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Install- … 7807.shtml

Last edited by .Sup (2009-08-17 11:08:00)

2009-08-17 11:25:34

#21

Agent_Dung_Bomb: Member; +302|6997|Salt Lake City

Is your copy of Windows SP2, or is it SP1 or older? If your disk isn't SP2, you could try making a new disk, and slipstream SP3 into it. The original release and SP1 were very poor at supporting SATA.

2009-08-17 11:31:40

#22

Pepsiholic: Member; +4|6087|Winland

It's SP3.
I think it's just the crappy old HP mobo which in fact is a A7V8X-LA. I just need to find the SATA drivers for it...

2009-08-18 06:05:36

#23

Pepsiholic: Member; +4|6087|Winland

I think I lucked out here, my dad had this floppy thingy which can be connected via USB. So I put the driver in there and happily tried to install xp. I pressed F6 and asked me to insert the floppy, did that, pressed enter, and it said couldn't find txtsetup.oem or soemthing like that. Now wtf?

Last edited by Pepsiholic (2009-08-18 06:06:13)

2009-08-18 06:14:55

#24

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6675|Finland

Does it show up in BIOS?

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2009-08-18 06:20:43

#25

Pepsiholic: Member; +4|6087|Winland

The floppy? (If HDD then I said already in my first post that itdoesn't show up in BIOS)

Last edited by Pepsiholic (2009-08-18 06:25:12)

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