Harddisks Not Detected All The Sudden

[Burrito]

Hello,

When I turned on the computer this morning none of my two harddisks were detected and thus the computer couldn't boot up windows. My CD-drive was detected, however.

I've hardware knowledge whatsoever, but I cracked open the computer and eventually noticed that the three devices shared a common cable labeled 'Serial ATA Cable'. I figured that changing the CD-cable with my main hard disk might help - and it did! Now my computer regonizes one of my disks, but neither the other nor the cd-drive.

What could be wrong? Is it the original disk cables that are broken, or perhaps the motherboard cable inputs? How can I debug the system to figure out which component is broken?

 

[manojgj]

just disconnect all the cables & addon cards and hook it.. it will work fine..

 

[jerfle]

Sounds like the onboard SATA controller maybe going bad. What mobo is it?

 

[aford10]

Try using the known good cable in the different SATA ports. If it works in the other ports, your other cables may be bad. If it doesn't work in the other ports, your other SATA controllers may be disabled in the BIOS.