HELP new sata drive

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enrico1982

I have just bought a new 250 gig Western Digital sata drive to replace
my current secondary sata. My primaey drive is a sata 10K WD raptor.

When i replace the 100 with the 250 neither of the drive can be seen
and the comp wont go past bios. I have used all the same connections,
just taken out the old put in the new. I have tried a few variations
tho - if i put the old back in both drives are fine and the primary
will run on its own. I have tried the new drive on its own aswell and
that does not work.

Have i just bought a dodgy drive?

TIA

Rico
 
I have just bought a new 250 gig Western Digital sata drive to replace
my current secondary sata. My primaey drive is a sata 10K WD raptor.

When i replace the 100 with the 250 neither of the drive can be seen
and the comp wont go past bios. I have used all the same connections,
just taken out the old put in the new. I have tried a few variations
tho - if i put the old back in both drives are fine and the primary
will run on its own. I have tried the new drive on its own aswell and
that does not work.
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Some SATA's need to be jumpered to work with older motherboards. Here's a
good example of that using a WD drive:

http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=847&cid=4

Malke
 
Malke said:
Some SATA's need to be jumpered to work with older motherboards. Here's a
good example of that using a WD drive:

http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=847&cid=4

Malke
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enrico:
Just to amplify Malke's comments...

I'm assuming your new WD SATA HD is a SATA-II (more precisely "SATA-IO")
model and not the older SATA-I type. As Malke says, some of the earlier
motherboards produced that provided SATA capability were designed to handle
only the SATA-I types. (I'm assuming your present WD Raptor is the earlier
SATA-I model).

Your WD HD comes from the factory with the default SATA-II interface
(unjumpered). You'll note the jumper pins on the drive. You can jumper the
drive so that its interface will be SATA-I. The diagram on the top of the
drive will indicate which pins need to be jumpered.

There's only one thing that concerns me in all this as you describe your
problem...

You say that when you "replace the 100 with the 250 neither of the drive(s?)
can be seen
and the comp wont go past bios." What do you mean "neither of the drive(s)"?
Are you referring to your boot drive, the Raptor? You can't boot when the
250 GB secondary HD is installed with the Raptor? If that's what you really
mean, there may be another issue present here. In our experience where the
SATA-I or II interface drive recognition problem is involved, it affects
only the non-recognition of the SATA-II HD (assuming it was installed as a
secondary HD, of course, and not the boot drive). But I suppose the problem
you describe could occur under these circumstances.

In any event, try re:jumpering the WD and see if that resolves the problem.
Anna
 
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