- Aug 25, 2013
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Our house had two very old pre-built PCs from dell both with Western Digital 3200RPM HDDs both with Windows Vista installed. My Dad decided to build a new computer with an old Asus P6T Deluxe motherboard and plugged these harddrives in to boot up Windows and extract any files. Except neither of the drives were detected in the SATA ports.
Thinking it was a motherboard issue I tried it in my computer with a Z87X-UD3H motherboard and those didn't detect the drives in the SATA ports.
Now, I've put the drives back in to their old pre-built motherboards and they didn't redetect the drives in the SATA ports either! At no point can I feel the drives spinning either, but I do feel them getting hot (so at least the power works?)
How did both of my drives end up breaking? Were these prebuilt HDDs not designed to be used with any other motherboard, some sort of OEM issue with the Windows Vista installed on them?
Thinking it was a motherboard issue I tried it in my computer with a Z87X-UD3H motherboard and those didn't detect the drives in the SATA ports.
Now, I've put the drives back in to their old pre-built motherboards and they didn't redetect the drives in the SATA ports either! At no point can I feel the drives spinning either, but I do feel them getting hot (so at least the power works?)
How did both of my drives end up breaking? Were these prebuilt HDDs not designed to be used with any other motherboard, some sort of OEM issue with the Windows Vista installed on them?
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