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hi, as the title says, my BIOS recognizes my hard drive, but I can't boot for some reason.

My motherboard is a M4a79xtd EVO and my hard drive is a Samsung Spinpoint F3 OEM that i got off newegg

I've checked the power and sata cables and nothing seems wrong, and i can hear the hard drive spinning.
So is it because i have a crappy hard drive? or did I do something wrong in trying to recognize the hard drive?

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You'll need to provide more info. Did you format the drive and install an OS?

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Reply to Proximon

What error messages are you getting?

Reply to jsc

Proximon wrote :

You'll need to provide more info. Did you format the drive and install an OS?

not yet. I basically just built it and when i started it up, it didn't recognize the hard drive, even though the BIOS recognized it.
I tried to install an OS, but because the hard drive wasn't recognize, I couldn't.

The error messages i'm getting are

"Hard disk is not detected"
"Reboot and select boot device..."

Reply to ironhorse_charlie

When you boot from the Windows CD it doesn't recognize and format the drive?

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Reply to Proximon

Right. Sorry to hijack, but I have the same issue. Bios reads HD but when I start windows CD says No hard drive detected.

Reply to mattp2

i had a similar issue, turned out i was using the slave end of the ide cable not the master end, try that, short of that i cant think of any other reason

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Reply to Dacca

Spinpoint F3 would be a SATA drive. Could be a BIOS setting though.

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Reply to Proximon

well, it turns out that my optical drive wasn't plug in all the way or something to that affect because when I put in the Windows CD, it started working.

But I'm still getting the screen that says the hard disk isn't detected, but Windows has been installed anyway.

Reply to ironhorse_charlie

What you could try is changing the bios setting for the sata drives from AHCI to IDE.

Some motherboards don't seem to find sata drives in the enhanced (AHCI) mode.

Give it a try and see what happens

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