Hey All. I just bought a ide 120 wd hard drive, but my motherboard supports only sata, and i bought a ide to sata adapter. soo i connected everything, and my computer is not recognizing it. i already have a sata 200gb installed, soo my 120gb is my second hard drive??? Why doesnt my computer recognize my hard drive???
2006-10-17 14:55:35 · 9 answers · asked by Romashkin 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
It its not recognized by BIOS, then dunno, otherwise if only windows not recognizing it, possibly driver problem
2006-10-17 14:58:23 · answer #1 · answered by badboy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So how did you install it, if it had a different cable? Check in the BIOS to make sure it is auto-detected there. Also check the jumpers on the drives to make sure you either have a master-slave combo or both cable select with the right one on the end of the cable. Some drives only like CS, some only like a master-slave relationship, so try the other combination if they are set up correctly now.
2016-05-21 22:20:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you need to set the jumpers at the back of the hard drive.
you need to make you hard drive with the operating system the master other one as slave. some times there is a writing on the hard drives tell you which pin is master or slave good luck.
2006-10-17 15:02:55 · answer #3 · answered by Koba 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is the configuration you are using? RAID 0?
I am not sure if an IDE converted SATA drive is supported by RAID.
2006-10-17 15:00:50 · answer #4 · answered by harsh_bkk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The new hard drive needs to be configured as a slave device. Check the jumpers on the back of the drive. They should be set to SL (slave)
2006-10-17 15:03:51 · answer #5 · answered by lj1 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably a jumper problem. WD is master (w/o slave!) with no jumper installed. Try that!
2006-10-17 15:07:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
double check all the conections to the drive and mother board. If your computer isn't seeing it in bios, one of the conections isn't seated completely or you got a bad drive(or adapter)
2006-10-17 15:02:53 · answer #7 · answered by foresttree69 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you tried moving the jumper to a different location? To CS or slave?
2006-10-17 15:04:19 · answer #8 · answered by S R 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have know idea what you're talking about?
2006-10-17 14:58:49 · answer #9 · answered by pollywollydoda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋