Installed windows 7 NOW my bios wont detect my sata 80gb seAGTE HARDDRIVE

[ConfuciusX8]

Hello, THE TITLE IS MY QUESTION...DRIVE HAD VISTA ON IT FOR YRS BOOTED WIN 7 CD AND CHOOSE TO DELETE PARTITIONS..I LET IT CREATE THE BACK UP PARTITIONS WITH 12GBG A 100mb AND THEN THE NISTALLATION PORTION..I INSTALLED..AFTER A REBOOT..DRIVE NEVER DETECTED AGAIN...WHEN ITS PLUGGED IN IOT FREEZES MY BOOT UP..CANT ACCCESS BIOS WHEN DRIVE PLUGGED IN..UNPLUG SERIAL CABLE..ALL IS WELL.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Please tone down the caps!

Thanks Tom's Hardware!

 

[king smp]

Hate to say
It sounds like a dead drive
You said you had it for years
was it getting louder or making clicking/grinding noise lately?

Sata drives are cheap
Since you are doing a new windows 7 install
investing in a good drive like a WD Caviar,Samsung Spinpoint or Seagate Barracuda
would be a good idea

hopefully you have backups of important info.....

also it is better than Sata controller on motherboard being dead

 

[Mousemonkey]

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