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HD is sata on new box, pata on old box. On old box, cd is on a different IDE channel

hi guys, it turned out my disk was bad. I used another hdd that my friend had laying around and vista installed first time, easy. Thanks for the help anyway

I got a drive from a friend, it was the drive, new drive worked fine :D

haha

Question: I've noticed a strange phenomena that I was wondering if anyone has seen. I'm building a new system and I've been having trouble loading Vista from a Samsung DVD player. I've had to Install the DVD several times (so far unsuccessfully). It turns out I have a bad HDD, however...

Question: I've noticed a strange phenomena that I was wondering if anyone has seen. I'm building a new system and I've been having trouble loading Vista from a Samsung DVD player. I've had to load the DVD several times (so far unsuccessfully). It turns out I have a bad HDD, however that's...

turn it off in bios and the message will go away

Silly question Maverrick, you've got express gate turned on in bios right? I seem to recall reading something about expressgate not working with raids. Even though AHCI isn't raid, it kind of rhymes. Since Express is just a linux partition, I wouldn't be surprised if the (linux) bootloader...

i tried that. the bios didnt even recognize the drive... You cant load onto a system the bios doesnt recognize I think the drive was doa, at least that's what I'm hoping now

Nothing seemed to work. Ulitimate boot CD included a copy of data lifeguard, the WD diagnostic tools. They couldn't see the drive. I RMA'd, hope a new drive fixes it :/

BX, No luck. There was no 803 bios, but there was a 703. Thats what my board came loaded with, it didnt work either. I tried to nail down the problem a little. I erased my cmos memory and started from scratch Erase cmos -- no sata power reset -- see IDE -- Says "Primary master hard...

thanks! How do you make a flash drive bootable anyway? Also, can you recommend which specific WD tool to download? (You were right, it was OEM) Thanks

Hello, I just bought a new P5Q Pro and a new WD Caviar SE16 640G Sata 2 drive. The mobo sees it sometimes (as an IDE), and sometimes it fails to detect it (35 sec delay). Even when it is detected, I cant install Vista on it, even after loading drivers. I have changed the power cable, the...

Update. Was able to flash the bios by powering down, letting it sit, and then flashing the bios without backing up the old one (I already had backed it up anyway). Still only sees the HDD some times, other times bios says its not detected

Question: I just built a new from scratch p5q-pro system. I have a WD Caviar SE16 640 GB sata2, also brand new. When they are put together, the mobo cant find the HDD "SATA1 Not Detected" in bios splash -- I've turned off marvell drivers -- Turned SATA=IDE in bios -- moved the sata port...