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Problem with sata drives installing windows7/Vista.

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KhronoS   10-09-2009 at 09:46:24 AM

I tried installing windows 7 and then my licensed windows Vista. My PC has 2 WesternDigital 640GB Sata Drives. Every time i try to install the drives it tells me that there are no drives detected.
I am kind of stuck and I have no idea what to do. Everything is brand new.
If you have some questions i can provide you with every detail you ask.
I hope some one knows how to fix the issue. Thank you very much.
Constantin Chirila

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zipzoomflyhigh   10-09-2009 at 03:08:51 PM
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Are you sure you connected the Sata cable AND the power cable to each drive?

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Bronze Storage badge Paperdoc   10-09-2009 at 05:50:30 PM
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Also go into the BIOS Setup screens on bootup and make sure that you have the SATA ports Enabled. when you do this, you can set the mode to either native SATA or AHCI - both Vista and Win 7 can handle these just fine. You do not need to use IDE or PATA Emulation, and do NOT set it to RAID unless you actually plan to make your disks a RAID array.


Message edited by Paperdoc on 10-09-2009 at 05:52:19 PM
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KhronoS   10-10-2009 at 02:56:50 PM
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Thank you guys for your prompt answers. After a long reading and tests i reached to the conclusion that one of the hard drives was corrupt.
So i've sent it to warranty but until then i installed the windows and everything works fine just on a sata2 hard drive :)

Again, thank you for your help.

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