SATA drive recognition

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rich998

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I've recently (well today actually...) re-installed windows on my PC which ahas been giving me problems with a changeover from ATI to nVidia video cards.

Anyway the PC has a WD IDE drive but it does not accept a SATA drive which is also installed in the PC. I've tried using Lifeguard from the WD web site which worked first time around before the re-install. However it is not now.

The drive is using the correct cables.

Any advice?
 
Is the SiL3112A SATA controller enabled in the first place? Second of all, if that is the case, you'll have to have drivers for it installed if you didn't feed them to the OS during the install.
 
If you have an IDE drive you need to make sure that all devices have proper IDs and that the right devices are terminated.
 
as BigB suggested and with my experience of sata drives, by the sounds of it you have not installed your SCSI / SATA driver at the start of the Windows install, when installing windows you should be given the oppurtunity to hit the "F6" key, the install will stop searching for hardware and pause for you to provide a source path to the SATA driver for your Sata hard drive, whether that be Floppy / CD or any removable devices.

If you have done this and it still doesnt work, i would contact the manufacturer of the part. However before doing this, if your hard drive is over 120GB you will need to enable your OS to support larger drives.. although usually it does it for you (its always worth a check).

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horatio said:
If you have an IDE drive you need to make sure that all devices have proper IDs and that the right devices are terminated.
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I think you're confusing IDE and SCSI there...
 
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