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Western Digital Hard drive
Im installing Windows 7 onto a new hard drive. It keeps telling me that it cant detect my hard drive and that I need to upload the drivers via some other media source ie usb drive. The hard drive is straight out of the box and I dont think Western Digitil has hard drive drivers. Is there some solution to this?
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What drivers is it asking for? Assuming the drive is SATA, Is the bios option pertaining to SATA devices set for IDE, AHCI, or RAID mode? Is there already an operating system on the pc or is this a new build?
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its and old pc but a new hard drive. new problems have arisen. I had to hook up the new sata drive with a molex to sata power adapter and now when I turn the pc on it says:
the bios does not be installed press g to continue or something like that. Im assuming its not detecting the hard drive now? |
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an update. I hooked up the hard drive to my other pc and successfully installed windows 7 onto it. Booted up just fine on my newer pc. Hooked it back up to the old pc and it said the same error message about no bios installed. any ideas?
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is it possible the new hard drive isnt getting enough power? they both list the same volts but the new hard drive has a smaller number for amps. What does this mean exactly?
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Better list the complete system specs for the old pc.
Depending on the hardware, there's a chance you'll need to set the drive up in the bios for it to be recognized, or the psu may be stessed with that xtra drive installed (can't say without the pc specs). |
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is there some way I can post all the pc specs?
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Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional OS Service Pack Service Pack 3 DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c) Computer Name EXPERIENCEPTS (blue glowy pc) User Name Administrator Motherboard: CPU Type AMD Athlon 64, 2000 MHz (10 x 200) 3200+ Motherboard Name Asus A8V (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 4 DDR DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN) Motherboard Chipset VIA K8T800Pro, AMD Hammer System Memory 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM) BIOS Type AMI (05/29/07) Communication Port Communications Port (COM1) Display: Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 6200 (256 MB) 3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce 6200 AGP Monitor Plug and Play Monitor [NoDB] (HVJZ403448) Multimedia: Audio Adapter VIA AC'97 Enhanced Audio Controller Storage: IDE Controller VIA Bus Master IDE Controller SCSI/RAID Controller FGDSCSI (2003) SCSI Host Adapter SCSI/RAID Controller VIA Serial ATA RAID Controller Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive Disk Drive SanDisk Cruzer USB Device (14 GB, USB) Optical Drive FgFx CDDVDx+tech-200x SCSI CdRom Device Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B (DVD+R9:4x, DVD+RW:16x/8x, DVD-RW:16x/6x, DVD-RAM:5x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:40x/24x/40x DVD+RW/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM) SMART Hard Disks Status OK Partitions: C: (NTFS) 152617 MB (97924 MB free) Input: Keyboard HID Keyboard Device Mouse HID-compliant mouse Network: Network Adapter Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (192.168.1.103) Peripherals: Printer HP Deskjet D1500 series Printer HP Photosmart D110 series Printer Microsoft XPS Document Writer USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller USB2 Controller VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller USB Device USB Composite Device USB Device USB Human Interface Device USB Device USB Human Interface Device USB Device USB Human Interface Device USB Device USB Mass Storage Device --------[ DMI ]--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ BIOS ] BIOS Properties: Vendor American Megatrends Inc. Version 0229 Release Date 05/29/2007 Size 512 KB Boot Devices Floppy Disk, Hard Disk, CD-ROM, ATAPI ZIP, LS-120 Capabilities Flash BIOS, Shadow BIOS, Selectable Boot, EDD, BBS Supported Standards DMI, APM, ACPI, ESCD, PnP Expansion Capabilities ISA, PCI, AGP, USB |
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If you need to know anything else let me know
keep in mind thats the old hard drive, the new one obviously isnt working Last edited by whisnant; December 4th, 2010 at 03:39 AM. |
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Am I right to assume the mobo is the AV8 and not the AV8_Deluxe?
What is the psu make/model and how many watts is it rated for? (should be a sticker on the side of the psu with the information) That board should support a total of 6 drives (4 PATA and 2 SATA interfaces). I think you're main problem stems from the SATA ports being configured for RAID (I didn't see an option in the bios to change it). I'm pretty sure that's why you got the Bios load error. You have to enter the raid configuration utility and set the drive up for use with the controller. (you'll need to use the "raid span for capacity" option when configuring it, since raid 0 and raid 1 require 2 or more disks). After that you'll need to have the controller drivers available on a floppy (for xp) or usb drive (vista and win7) to install the OS. Thats why when you tried to load win7 you were asked to supply drivers for the hard drive. The other issue here is that the motherboard has no driver support for windows 7. |
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Well I already have Win7 installed on the hard drive. So basically I need to hook up the hard drive to my newer pc, and install a raid configuration utility on it, and set the sata drive up for raid?
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I don't think it will work as easy as that. I would put the new drive in, set the array up via the raid utility, then install win7 from scratch.
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so where would I download one of these raid utilities?
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Don't need to download anything, the utility is already integrated in the system. just hit your Tab key during post and it will open. the directions for using the utility are found in you motherboard manual (If you don't have it you can D/L from ASUS' support site) starting on page 5-11.
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so do I need to do this on the pc that actually detects the hard drive?
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