- Jan 19, 2014
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hello! - i am a complete moron so please bare with me:
i have a secondary sata HDD that doesn't currently appear to be working ...it did before but i was tinkering about with an old IDE HDD and i think i might have "encouraged the breaking" of the sata one:
anyhoo - the HDD is not found by the BIOS initially, then when i change the HD discovery setting (asus S.M.A.R.T thing (...asus mobo)) and restart, the HDD is displayed in the BIOS.
...the bios reads that it had a 0mb capacity when found (i think its 2TB)
also windows (7) will not start with the HDD present in the bios, but will start if the BIOS can't find it or if i have a different secondary sata connected inside in the same ports with the same cables.
i get the "insert system disk" error.
....so basically if in bios windows won't start - if not in bios, windows will start, not in device manager.
- so i either cant load windows to use it OR can't find it with windows anyway:
does that mean it is broken and beyond repair ?
thanks!
i have a secondary sata HDD that doesn't currently appear to be working ...it did before but i was tinkering about with an old IDE HDD and i think i might have "encouraged the breaking" of the sata one:
anyhoo - the HDD is not found by the BIOS initially, then when i change the HD discovery setting (asus S.M.A.R.T thing (...asus mobo)) and restart, the HDD is displayed in the BIOS.
...the bios reads that it had a 0mb capacity when found (i think its 2TB)
also windows (7) will not start with the HDD present in the bios, but will start if the BIOS can't find it or if i have a different secondary sata connected inside in the same ports with the same cables.
i get the "insert system disk" error.
....so basically if in bios windows won't start - if not in bios, windows will start, not in device manager.
- so i either cant load windows to use it OR can't find it with windows anyway:
does that mean it is broken and beyond repair ?
thanks!
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