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mrmagoo_83

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Windows is installed on a PATA drive, I had my SATA as a storage drive. I have since swapped out motherboards; however, I didn't have to do a reinstall because it was the same chipset (plus I didn't want to so :p).

But now, even though I have a VIA SATA Raid Controller show up in Device Manager, my SATA drive isn't recognized anywhere, not in the BIOS, not in Windows, not in Partition Magic.

Any thoughts?
 
You may need to uninstall the controller and reinstall it. Sometimes even though computers have the same chipset some things can still be a little different, especially when it's not the same board or is a different revision Windows can still freak out.
 
mrmagoo_83 said:
Windows is installed on a PATA drive, I had my SATA as a storage drive. I have since swapped out motherboards; however, I didn't have to do a reinstall because it was the same chipset (plus I didn't want to so :p).

But now, even though I have a VIA SATA Raid Controller show up in Device Manager, my SATA drive isn't recognized anywhere, not in the BIOS, not in Windows, not in Partition Magic.

Any thoughts?
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I think your problem is the fact that the controller is showing up as RAID. I'd bet that if you went into the RAID BIOS (after initial POST) you would find your drive waiting to be assigned to an array. Now that means you have a BIOS toggle that changes the operating mode of the VIA storage controller between RAID and plain ol' SATA. Look for that setting and change it to SATA or Legacy (dunno what model you have), reboot. Your drive should pop up during POST.
 
Asrock 4Core-VSTA
2 x SerialATA 1.5Gb/s connectors, support RAID 0, 1, JBOD functions
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Pretty much a budget board that doesn't seem to support SATA 2 specs.

Is this HDD SATA 2?
 
Old Hippie said:
Pretty much a budget board that doesn't seem to support SATA 2 specs.

Is this HDD SATA 2?
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That should have nothing to do with it. Budget or not the drives should work. OP posted the motherboard model but made no mention of whether or not he looked at the BIOS for toggle settings for the SATA/RAID controller. If you have a controller set for RAID and that can sometimes be the default then you won't see the hard drives in the BIOS or POST.
 
Page 38 in your manual, make sure it's set to Non-Raid. Check your cables, try new ones. Does the drive spin up when you power on the computer?
 
My apologies, yes I have it set to non-raid in the bios. As far as the drive spinning up, its hard to tell. I believe it does. The drive was working fine in my previous machine.
 
Ok, well this is funny, or well maybe not, but whatever.

I was at Fry's today, and picked up one of those fancy little 3 in 1 external connector things, allows you to hook up any hard drive as a USB drive without a case. Plugged up the SATA drive, boom comes up. So then I got to fiddling around, and wouldn't know it, it turns out the line from my power supply to the drive is bad. Its a Y cable, and the middle junction is kaput. So I swapped out the cable and boom, my drive has returned and no need for the external thingy.

Sheesh what a pain, and why didn't I check that before. DOH!!!
 
I just let vista provide the drivers for my sata. No way I'm letting anything besides graphics be driven by Nvidia drivers, because I have no choice. And yes, I know even the provided drivers are from Nvidia but SO WHAT?
 
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