Methods to troubleshoot a hard disk is not detected. Done some digging online and some ideas are not a big enough psu, faulty sata cables, but swapped in an ide hdd and nothing again. However no disk is recognized either in my computer or in disk management mmc. Generally, an ata or sata port is set to autodetect. I dont have the resources to test the dvd drive in another pc now so i reconfigured the sata. Although the drive is spinning, it may not have enough power, so check that its listed as a. Sata drivers for windows 7 install hp support community. If one finds that their hard disk is not detected by the system bios, the following steps not in any particular order, can be used to isolate the issue.
Yahoo answers some people put drive on cs, hey then it worked sata to ide adapter, drive not detected in bios hard drives storage what do i do to make it work for me. The hard disc connection to the usbsata adapter may be loose check disk drives in the same place. Now im trying to install a third sata drive another wd6400aaks. Syba sata ii to ide pata ata3 bidirectional adapter for 2. I plugged the adapters ide connector to the motherboard, the power cable into the adapter and the sata cable from the drive to the adapter. The driver has not tried to install itself again, despite repeated reboots.
Managed to boot via a usb drive with linux and everything system wise, pcu, gpu etc works, but still no sata drives. Here are some information on the connection to help you get started and troubleshoot the problem. Sata device is not recognized by bios microsoft community. If the hard drive is still not detected follow the next step. If you know where your original driver is the idesata to usb bridge, go into device manager, right click on your messed up hardware and choose update driver. Build a pc computer not detecting ide devices techspot. All 4 sata ports are not recognized in bios, just empty. Bios not detecting any sata drives windows 7 help forums. Sata drives not detected in bios posted in internal hardware. If your drives exceeded the limitation, you may have to purchase a bigger ac adapter for your needs, please contact vantec support for sizing the ac adapter for your needs and to purchase optional bigger ac adapter. Bios detects it on ide channel 2 master with correct specs. This worked, no errors, and it seemed to be very fast. I had this problem a while back i like ide, not sata.
The motherboard manual makes it very clear that the sata connectors support only 1st generation serial ata data rates of 150mbs. Sata to usb hdd casing ebay affiliate this video shows how to repair your hard disk drive of laptop or desktop. Ide to sata drive not recognised solved windows 10 forums. Sata drives showing up ide in bios tweaktown forums. Hello, i did solve the problem, and i am posting because i saw many forums with the same issue and nobody was telling the correct way to solve it discussion in. Oh yeah, prior to sending in the board i lost all drives, a 512gb ssd, a 1tb hdd and an optical drive. When i started my pc it said to select the boot device and then reboot. The optical drive adapter also features odd optical disk drive support, allowing you to a add bluray, dvd, or cdrom drives to an older ide motherboard. Im very curious about this attempted driver installation, since it seems like that could be my missing link of course, the product literature says it needs no drivers, but ive seen that be wrong many times in the past. Usbsata converter may be faulty or have a loose connection check that it listed under universal serial bus controllers in device manager. Ssd to sata via usb not showing on windows 10 discus and support ssd to sata via usb not showing on windows 10 in windows 10 installation and upgrade to solve the problem.
With the help of this video you can fix problems of your. The other 2 machines i built were on evga x58 boards and they automatically defaulted or picked up the fact i had installed sata drives. Try a different sata cable and see if the hard drive is detected. In the main screen of the bios setup, there are supposed to be 6 sata ports shown. The options in bios are for sata controller enabledisable, sata controller ide or ahci. That said, the adapters based on jm20330 simply convert the interface. For actual drives 1 4 is the enable or disable them.
Ide to sata hard drive or optical drive adapter converter 40pin pata to 2. If that doesnt work it is probably a faulty usb adapter. If the hard drive is detected, the problem is with the sata cable and has to be replaced. I am having the same issue with a relatively new maximus vi impact. The idesata adapter offers a costeffective solution for bridging the gap between a newer 2. My sata hdd is not detected by bios august 2009 cnet. I am using a scythe sataide hard drive to usb adapter cable on a sata hard drive. I connected the adapter and hard drive to my dell dimension c521 desktop, but my computer isnt detecting the ide drive. Since the computer cannot boot into windows xp, the device manager cannot be accessed and used to install the sata hdd driver. Pci sata adapters not detected on hp pavilion hpe h81250. Hard drives not detected by bios after switching to ahci. I have fitted my new motherboard and it does not recognise my ide devices, it recognises ps2 keyboard, my pciex nvidia 8400gs and my genius 5. Ide to sata drive not recognised windows 10 forums.
The yellow led lights up the sata cable plugged into sata port and tried multiple ports. Windows xp does not support ahci of ssd, which leads to detection failure or poor performance. Why is the drive not showing when i connect my old hard. When a sata drive wd5000aaks connects to sata port 0, and the adapter connects to sata port 1, the adapter is not detected.
However when i checked the bios i saw that there were no sata hdd nor any dvd writer visible. On reboot, windows comes up fine but now the dvd isnt found. The reason that the bios doesnt detect it is because in most cases, the bios is set to autodetect the drives on an ide bus only. I guess the bios can detect only up to 160 gb the drive itself has 250 gb. Here, we take a look at the factors that are behind the scenario where hard disk is not detected and how to solve this issue. Make sure bios detects the drive and registers its size correctly. Not having a jumper on hand, i went ahead and connected the hard drive without a jumper. Resolved 3rd hard drive detected in bios but not in. The ssd is placed on sata 1 in ahci while my two other internal drives are on sata 5 and 6 in ide. Ide to sata adapter problem february 2010 forums cnet. During post tests, my older hard drive is recognized as my primary secondary as i had set it up. Sata device is not recognized by bios unlike other similar problems, the bios on my computer does not recognize my sata hard drive or dvdram. If not detected by windows, double check jumper settings and. Thanks for finding the link i hate msis site with a passion, the design is awful and leads you round and round in circles to their country select page every 5 clicks.
New sata drives recognised by bios but not detected by vista sorry i forgot to specify my mainboard model. I hear the computer beep when the usb device is attached and the ico in the system tray shows up. Upon entering the bios setup i noticed a strange problem. Bios not detecting internal sata dvdcd optical drive. I opened the case and unplugged the hd from the sata 2 connector and the the dvd from the sata 1 connector, and swapped their sata port connections. Pci sata adapters not detected on hp pavilion hpe h81250 desktop pc. Select the type of drive you are using and follow the instruction closely and in this sequence to get the adapter to work. Sata drives not detected in bios internal hardware. Did you install os on uefi bios and partition the hdd as gpt partition. I hope steam games wont have to be reinstalled cos that would kill my internet. My secondary sata hard drive is not detected in the bios. Please help if the bios cannot read the drives information correctly, such as the vendor and its size, and all options are not supported, and windows disk management does not see the drive, it is most likely dead. When the next dialog box comes up and it asks if its ok for windows to search for the driver, select no not this time and click next.
It looks pretty much band new, dispite it being 15 years old. How to repair hard disk not detected by innovative ideas. The original harddrive failed so using windows to execute any programs is not an option. I expected the hard drive to have a jumper included, which it did not. Have now come to a cross roads dont know what elses to try. I am guessing that the wd disk is using a disk drive. Sata hard drive connected with ide motherboard internal. I restarted and went to the bios and found that sata2 isnt detecting anything. During bootup, i can see all 3 drives detected at post. I had nothing, they werent just not detected, they simply werent there.
I have a samsung 40gb ide hdd that i took out of an old case. If the hard drive is detected, one of the sata ports on the motherboard is bad. My sata hdd is not detected by bios by nshan418 aug 10, 2009 1. Its not recognised by windows, and it doesnt seem to show up in the uefi bios. Pc fails to recognize the new purchased ssd because of ssd driver. By adding a good sata pci card you may get 7gb support due to the cards onboard bios extension, which a sata pata adapter simply does not provide. I tried changing up between the raid, ide, and ahci in the storage configurations but it didnt change much. I did not initially select anything in bios when i setup the machine.