Hi I've been building a PC from someone its nothing special and I've built the same type before and it was fine but this time I can't get it to build because windows installer tells me there are no hard drive attached, but there are. So I tried installing windows from my PC and it worked so I installed the user profiles and didn’t install any drivers so that I could swap the hard drive out and install the drivers for the original machine onto the drive, I'm trying to get two 80GB to work with each other and I can't because when I installed the hard drive into it, it blue screened so I tried to rebuild windows and the same thing no hard drives detected. I’ve tried replacing the SATA cables but nothing works and the BIOS sees that there are two HDD installed… The specs are AMD Sempron ASUS K8U-X 512MB DDR400 2x Hitachi Desk Star.
have you correctly set the jumper(s) on the HDD your HDD will probably have a different jumper layout (click image anyway, it does work)
Thanks for your help but there SATA HDD and the selection is done depending were you plug each SATA cable into, I've even tryed just having one pluged into one and no joy, I'm getting desprate now as I can't work it out.
yea the BIOS finds it, thats why I don't understand why they wont work, I tryed them on a different motherboard and they were fine the mother board seems fine but maybe there is somthing wrong with it.
right, and you've tried with a known working cable, are you sure the RAM isn't the culprit, its a pain but running Memtest86 will eliminate the RAM, leave it running for at least 12 hours & if it reports more than about 200 errors then the RAM is faulty BTW: download memtest either the floppy version or the CD image (iso)
Have you set the master device from the BIOS?? Choose one of the HDD as a first boot from BIOS and then try to install windows on that drive. Also as Dave suggested in the previous post, run memtest to make sure that there is no memory problem hah:
