Restore Disk and SATA Drive

[jeffpollak]

How do you use Quick Restore with an SATA drive? Although the SATA is recognized in the Bios, Quick Restore keeps on rebooting as if there is no drive there.

 

[g-paw]

Do you have the BIOS set up to recognize the SATA drive as well as boot from it?

 

[jeffpollak]

Yes I do, cable is firmly in place, and the drive is recognized by the BIOS at boot-up. Do you think the SATA drive is bad? It's a 100GB Seagate and is about 2 years old.

 

[g-paw]

Couple of things. Run the diagnostic/repair software from Seagate, this should tell you if the drive is bad and sometimes can fix problems. 2nd, if the drive is a SATA 1.5 but the board connector is 3.0, you may have to set the jumpers and the Seagate website will tell you how they should be set.

 

[jeffpollak]

Seems that drive is dead. Will replace and see what happens. Thanks for your help.

 

[g-paw]

Good luck