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Samson:
J, If it is a PATA HDD then it will not show up in SATA port 0. It should be Primary Master in the BIOS.
If you are using an 80 wire PATA cable then it should have a "key" on the plug so that it can only fit one way.
What are the jumper settings on the HDD? If your PC is a DELL, they prefer "cable select" and place the drive on the correct plug on the cable for "master", the black connector at the end of the cable. (based on my DELL experiences :wink:)
Also, the 80 wire cables are really easy to damage if you do not pull on the plug, but instead tug the cable itself. They can also damage if folded or twisted, try swapping it for another cable if you have on.
jraju:
Hi, when new hdd could not be replaced, the technician has given this age old hdd . Once when i looked at bios, the hdd was found in sata port 0. There was only available port , and the dvd drive has sata 1. But i found the dvd drive is connected with mobo with red sata thin tape, but showing as sata 1. Now, i do not find hdd in bios. I do not know what is ahci, but in power in bios i have acpi.
samson, you are correct that it is old model intel mobo repaired by technician to replace hdd and processor in the previous attempt.
Now i get reboot select disk error and i do not know the fix.
in my bios, ide/ata settings have been in enhanced stage, to enable both pata and sata. I still do not know, how pata taped hdd was shown as sata 0 drive.
I have legacy mode,which has some settings. Should i change this to legacy, there are some options. what is achi you mentioned. i could feel the spinning in hdd, but i donot know . i do not have any spare pata tape and should only try it when i go to the richie street, where there are available. nowadays nobody use pata cable as for as i know.
i made it a point to avoid the previous technician for he has provided one pata instead of my previous 4 sata ports
Samson:
Does anything show up under ide/ata devices in the BIOS?
You may have to try "legacy" mode, make a note of your BIOS settings, as you could lose the DVD drive :wink:
When you removed the CMOS battery this would have reset the BIOS to default.
jraju:
Hi, It happens to be dead hdd again. The old one worked and gone.
Now, i called my tech, and he replaced with 500 gb.
i could have done it myself with the knowledge that i have.
but i do not know the power connection. I have already lost the new hdd at previous attempt. But it turned out that the exact power plug suitable for hdd would be suffice and it is immaterial , if you take any connection points in the wire from smtp.
Now i am back with all the old data gone with the old hdd.
This is my second attempt.
Why this behaviour? When installing windows, after first reboot, when windows configuring after expanding, the boot stops at mobo sign.
Could some body adduce the reason. I also thought, there may be settings in bios, but that is not the reason. How it would have happened. Probably this is an old hdd and so i could understand. But what about new hdds, when installing.
Samson:
J, probably best to start a new thread with this, likely to get more reads if you start a thread with a title relevant to your problem...
So a new (or used) HDD? SATA? Did you do a full format of the new HDD, Installing what OS etc...
For future reference an image back up of your old failed HDD would have saved all your data and you could have swapped it out for the new one and been back up and running again in no time :wink:
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