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1tb harddrive not detected

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by beginner9

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Hi all

I have 1TB Internal sata hard disk. I bought it from my back home which was working fine.

I assembled a new System and everyting is working fine except this 1TB Internal sata hard drive.

I changed sata cables, power supply and I even tried it on my friends i7 computer but still this 1TB Sata is not detecting. I checked BIOS aswell .

Every other hard drive/cables/ power supply works fine in my friends i7 computer and my computer.

This 1TB is not detected so can any one suggest me what to do please.

(if you dont know please dont give stupid answers like take it to computer shop/ throw it bla bla bla ......)

Thank you

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by shasca

What do you see in Device Manager, and Disk Management. This may give some clues. Does it detect on any system you have attached it to?

by beginner9

This internal 1TB harddrive was formatted using XP and used as a slave.

It did not detect on any computer as a Master/slave.

If it is a problem with OS or compatability it should atleast detect in BIOS.

no clues in Device Manager / Disk Management / Add hardware

by oh smeg

Are seen by the BIOS that should tell you that you have a problem with this drive.

Of course if this M'Board doesn't see any SATA Drives in the BIOS that means nothing. ;)

What does it's makers Test utility say about it?

Also did you read the Users Manual for this M'Board and confirm that you can use all of the available SATA Connections for Single Drives and not part of a RAID? Some M'Boards have 8 SATA Connectors but can not use 8 Drives unless you have a RAID Array running. ;)

Col

by oh smeg

And what OS is on this system?

It Gould be something as simple as the Security of a newer version of Windows not allowing the Partition Tables of a older Windows formatted HDD to be read.

For instance the original XP when used to format any HDD will not allow that HDD to be read on Vista systems.

So what does the Drive Manager say about this HDD?

Also have you tested this drive with it's makers Testing Utility?

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287

Knowing the Make & Model of the HDD as well as the various OS's that it was originally formatter with and what is currently being used as well as the type of M'Board that it's connected to wouldn't hurt. ;)

Col

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