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Thanks for your response, Bev. I tried System Setup (the BIOS setup, F2 on boot), saw there seemed to be a third sata slot available, but it wouldn't see my drive.
Then I noticed an unconnected sata cable dangling near an open sata connector on the motherboard. Turns out there are 4 sata connectors on the MB, arranged vertically right next to the CMOS battery (upper left corner of the MB, battery looks like a shiny quarter). Three were taken up (the two optical drives and the original hard drive). I plugged in the dangling connector and traced it back to the bay in which I had installed my new drive: no wonder it didn't work! This bay is the first open bay beneath the original hard drive.
Turned the PC on, and my new drive was found automatically! Reboot was required, and now I'm ready to go. The data from its previous home was there. Problem solved.
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July 5th, 2008 03:00
Have you checked that the SATA port it's connected to, is enabled [on], in the System Setup?
System Setup.
Bev.
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July 5th, 2008 13:00
Thanks for your response, Bev. I tried System Setup (the BIOS setup, F2 on boot), saw there seemed to be a third sata slot available, but it wouldn't see my drive.
Then I noticed an unconnected sata cable dangling near an open sata connector on the motherboard. Turns out there are 4 sata connectors on the MB, arranged vertically right next to the CMOS battery (upper left corner of the MB, battery looks like a shiny quarter). Three were taken up (the two optical drives and the original hard drive). I plugged in the dangling connector and traced it back to the bay in which I had installed my new drive: no wonder it didn't work! This bay is the first open bay beneath the original hard drive.
Turned the PC on, and my new drive was found automatically! Reboot was required, and now I'm ready to go. The data from its previous home was there. Problem solved.
shesagordie
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July 5th, 2008 17:00
Pleased to hear that the problem is resolved.
Yep, using the correct data cable does help. :)
Bev.
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