Problem with sata drives installing windows7/Vista.. 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...

See a future problem with SATA drives?. I am in the process of converting 3 PCs and 2 NAS units over to SATA. The problem I can see if I have to reinstall XP in the future is it doesn't see the full size of the 1T sata drives until I have installed sp1....

SATA DRIVE & a wee problem.. Hi The problem: the SATA/IDE adapter should enable my bios to see the disk. The bios doesnt see the disk. But it runs a search which takes longer with the SATA disk connected; I've got a MS 6580 motherboard with uptodate...

Problem with Sata DVD drive installing Fedora 8. I just downloaded and burned a DVD of Fedora 8. When I try to install fedora it hangs for 10 minutes at loading "ata_piix driver" after the 10 minutes it continuse and asks where the install media is (CD, hard...

Problem with sata driver when installing vista. Hi, I have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe rev 2.0 motherboard with an onboard silicon sata controller. I am using the latest bios and sata device is configured as 1st booting device. The Driver version that comes with...

it be that the SATA controller (SATA1) is the culprit? How can I make sure of that? And, supposing it is the culprit, how can I solve my problem? Thanks! Have you tried a different SATA cable and port? The Abit NF7-S motherboard has only 2 SATA connectors...

to get some answers here for a problem I have with my computer. I have a pentium 4 3.06ghz Motherboard : AsRock P4i65G Video Card: ATI - Raedon X1650 pro 512mb 1500mb ram 120gb hardrive IDE 640gb hardrive (where the problems are) SATA with a cd and...

is the drive not recognized but it gives me a failure. I thought that the SATA II interface would have been backwards compatible with the slower transfer rate of the SATA. I'm wondering if it is a compatibility problem or perhaps I have a bad drive? Thanks...

moving the drive to another mounting bay? Or maybe the problem is at the mobo end. ^ Isn't recommendable a SATA cable with 90-degree....the data could be lost. I've never heard that there is a reliability problem with SATA cables with 90-degree connectors....

SATA disk tools. I've a serios problem on my sata DISK. I moved it to a newer system and the disk settings seem to have changed. THe new system can read the disk like a charm .... The old one even locks up in the setup. I've seen these problems before,...