Sata and bios hate me

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Mewohkie

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So I built a new PC the other day.
segate 250gb SATA 2 HDD
intel core2due e6400
gigabyte GA-P31-s3g mobo
gskill 2gb 1066 ddr2
bfg 8800gtoc vc
450w atx ps
and installed vista ulti 64

Everything worked, I flashed the bios to the newest version, everything was good. I install itunes 64bit version and restart then boom, my bios stops detecting my sata drive. I checked cables, rolled back bios, checked sata settings, nothing. Maybe someone here has some insight? please.
 
How long has the pc been running before installing Itunes? Try swapping Sata cables if you have any lying around. Also, what jumper settings is it set on?
 
Tried different cables, the system ran 2 days playing Team Fortress 2 before installing itunes. IDK what you mean by jumper settings cause it is SATA, unless you mean its transfer rate, it's set for 3Gb/s
 
Check the hard drive in another PC and see if it's not dead.

BTW, what 450W PSU do you have?
 
I'll have to find someone with a sata board to try, but i feel it spinning up and it gets hotter when i power on so it seems like it's working. I use an NZXT power supply
 
I still don't know what could cause this, I have my old harddrive but I don't think it will boot the vista OS installed on it with the new motherboard and processor
 
I had a similar problem to this with my old A7N8X Mobo. That board had SATA drivers that had to be installed when you installed windows and one day it just stopped working. Weird. I fixed it but it sound like your mobo doesn't have the same problem if your drive is still showing up in your BIOS. Stay away from Itunes if you can... Mediamonkey may be a better alternative. Not jacking your thread.
 
Try with the other cable and the other sata port also , hope that it would be working
 
Yea still no luck with it. I think the logic board on the drive itself might be dead. I brought it to work and tried our external SATA drive usb connector and it wouldn't even find it and it was finding other drives that had physical disk errors. So I might have to call seagate and see if 1) I can RMA it as I only bought it in January and 2) If they can data recover it or replace the logic board on it and ship it back with my data intact or 3) Send me a new logic board so I can install it. Anyone deal with seagate before?
 
Well seagate gave me a really piss poor responce. They didn't even offer to RMA the drive. They instead tried pushing their data recovery service on me. I want to bash them in their face. Anyone have any suggested recommendations?
 
If you suspect the drive is dead, then setup an RMA. You should be able to do that online.

As for your data, that's your responsibility - Seagate won't give you a replacement logic board or provide data recovery services. If the data on the drive is critical you could buy another drive and swap the logic board yourself (no guarantee that will fix the problem) or send the drive off for data recovery and pay the bill.
 
I'm thinking I'm gonna have to swap the logic board itself. They guarentee the drive not the data and they want $700 to recover it. If the drive was physically damaged and the disks were destroyed I would send it out, but all of it is fine. So I will wait for payday to roll around and have to look for the exact make and model HDD online to swap it out. Even if it only works for a few hours, enough to get all the files I want onto a new drive
 
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