[lemonchicken]

modi123_1, on 05 April 2011 - 09:12 AM, said:

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in which case you should try a different sata port,

I believe he said he tried that.

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use a different sata cable

.. and this.

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or buy a new drive

.. and did this too.

Also your post #13 - how does that help if it doesn't recognize the drive to even attempt to format it?

about 6 months ago i created a 40gb partition for use with ubuntu.
making this unviewable by windows once installed..

booting from disk allows you to view all connected drives and format them accordingly --so they can once again be used by windows.

if its unreadable at this stage, he will likely have to buy a new drive.

[modi123_1]

... or his motherboard is dying.. or the power supply is spiking. I have experienced both and no amount of reformatting would work.

[lemonchicken]

yerhh.. needs a system rebuild really.
could delay by trying something like this.
bear in mind transfer speed would be painfully limited

This post has been edited by lemonchicken: 05 April 2011 - 09:44 AM

[lemonchicken]

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If I connect my new hard drive then my computer won't recognize any hard drives.

for now, download all the latest driver and firmware updates for your hdd's

[Gerbs02]

lemonchicken, on 05 April 2011 - 09:49 AM, said:

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If I connect my new hard drive then my computer won't recognize any hard drives.

for now, download all the latest driver and firmware updates for your hdd's

Have you tried resetting your Bios? I have built a few sytems with this same board in the past. I seem to remember having an issue like yours when installing a new SATA drive with existing IDE drives present. The bios can be a bit quirky. A full reset of the bios usualy did the trick. The bios seemed to not want to look at an unformated SATA drive while formated IDE drives were present. I think the newest bios update resolved the issue but am not positive since it was a while back.