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Hitachi IBM SATA not recognized by Win XP SP@
My system: Dell XPS running Win XP SP2
Just purchased a new IBM Hitachi Deskstar 7K250. Installed it properly in terms of physical properties - cabled up with proper cables, etc.. Upon first boot-up, a blue screen & white font runs through a diagnostic of some sort, saying that "the volume is dirty" and that the drive is formated "FAT32" (my other two drives - SATA 400 gb - are formated NTSF....and they're running fine.. Everything else during the diagnostic signals OK... Finishes booting up....but the new IBM Hitachi drive does not show up. No nothing. Tried rebooting, etc....still nothing. Tried "F2" going into set-up...can't find drive. Tried physically uninstalling, booting the computer, then uninstalling...nothing. Tried System Recovery.....nothing. There are no jumpers, of course, on the drive because it's a SATA. And there are no device driver updates on Hitachi or IBM sites. Don't know what to do... Any help/suggestion is much appreciated... Thanks. John |
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Hitachi IBM SATA not recognized by Win XP SP@
"John Arnold" wrote...
Finishes booting up....but the new IBM Hitachi drive does not show up. No nothing. Tried rebooting, etc....still nothing. Tried "F2" going into set-up...can't find drive. Tried physically uninstalling, booting the computer, then uninstalling...nothing. Does the physical disk show in the Disk Management panel (Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Storage)? If so, you only need to assign it a drive letter, but you may want to re-partition and reformat in NTFS first. |
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Hitachi IBM SATA not recognized by Win XP SP@
No.....the SATA HD does not appear in Disk Management, nor in Explorer/My
Computer/etc. Have reaffirmed cables, swapped cables, etc. Disk is getting power.....it heats up. Tried physically uninstalling and rebooting and powering down and installing again....does not appear. Tried System Restore....doesn't appear. That's about it... Out of ideas.... Help appreciated.... John "John R Weiss" wrote in message ... "John Arnold" wrote... Finishes booting up....but the new IBM Hitachi drive does not show up. No nothing. Tried rebooting, etc....still nothing. Tried "F2" going into set-up...can't find drive. Tried physically uninstalling, booting the computer, then uninstalling...nothing. Does the physical disk show in the Disk Management panel (Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Storage)? If so, you only need to assign it a drive letter, but you may want to re-partition and reformat in NTFS first. |
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Hitachi IBM SATA not recognized by Win XP SP@
"John Arnold" wrote...
No.....the SATA HD does not appear in Disk Management, nor in Explorer/My Computer/etc. Disk is getting power.....it heats up. That's about it... Out of ideas.... Maybe the HD itself is bad, or the SATA controller burps with the 3rd HD added. You mentioned earlier the controller BIOS called it "dirty," but I don't know what that means in context. Try disconnecting the other HDs, boot from your XP install CD, and see if it detects the HD. Does your SATA controller come with any Windoze drivers? If so, you may need to install them, regardless of whether you use RAID. |
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Hitachi IBM SATA not recognized by Win XP SP@
Check with Dell. You may need to install a SATA driver and since it is a
Dell PC, they should provide the driver, if one exists! "John Arnold" wrote in message ... My system: Dell XPS running Win XP SP2 Just purchased a new IBM Hitachi Deskstar 7K250. Installed it properly in terms of physical properties - cabled up with proper cables, etc.. Upon first boot-up, a blue screen & white font runs through a diagnostic of some sort, saying that "the volume is dirty" and that the drive is formated "FAT32" (my other two drives - SATA 400 gb - are formated NTSF....and they're running fine.. Everything else during the diagnostic signals OK... Finishes booting up....but the new IBM Hitachi drive does not show up. No nothing. Tried rebooting, etc....still nothing. Tried "F2" going into set-up...can't find drive. Tried physically uninstalling, booting the computer, then uninstalling...nothing. Tried System Recovery.....nothing. There are no jumpers, of course, on the drive because it's a SATA. And there are no device driver updates on Hitachi or IBM sites. Don't know what to do... Any help/suggestion is much appreciated... Thanks. John |
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Hitachi IBM SATA not recognized by Win XP SP@
"John Arnold" wrote in message ... My system: Dell XPS running Win XP SP2 Just purchased a new IBM Hitachi Deskstar 7K250. Installed it properly in terms of physical properties - cabled up with proper cables, etc.. Upon first boot-up, a blue screen & white font runs through a diagnostic of some sort, saying that "the volume is dirty" and that the drive is formated "FAT32" (my other two drives - SATA 400 gb - are formated NTSF....and they're running fine.. A new drive shouldn't be formatted at all, FAT32 or otherwise, so this makes me wonder if it is indeed a new drive. Of course, I haven't bought any IBM/Hitachi drives in years, so maybe this is the norm for them. Since you already have two SATA's running, this implies you have already populated the on-chip SATA controllers, so I assume you have an on-board extra SATA controller (like Sil3112) that requires its own bios to run. Do you have it enabled properly in the bios, and does it show up after POST? An on-board, off-chip SATA controller should show its own bios screen right after POST. Everything else during the diagnostic signals OK... What do you mean by "during the diagnostic"? Finishes booting up....but the new IBM Hitachi drive does not show up. No nothing. Tried rebooting, etc....still nothing. Tried "F2" going into set-up...can't find drive. Tried physically uninstalling, booting the computer, then uninstalling...nothing. If you have one available, try installing the drive into a mobile rack or external enclosure (USB2 or Firewire) and try getting it recognized that way. After it is partitioned and formatted NTFS you can then try to relocate it in its proper place. And there are no device driver updates on Hitachi or IBM sites. Since it is a new drive you might try calling Hitachi tech support. |
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