Anish

hi
I'm helping one of my friends out with his pc but i cant figure out why the setup cannot identify his hard drive. The motherboard is gigabyte GA-8I945PM-RH and he has a maxtor 160gb sata hdd.

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tubesaddict

If you go into BIOS, can you see the hard drive?

Anish

Yes I can see the hdd in bios

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forgot_to_order_a_quad

Swearing at it helps. It helps with my problems...

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Syjeklye

if he has only 1 sata hard drive, you might have to tell the bios that you are not making a raid, and to let the sata drives act as IDE drives.

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Anish

He can only do ahci or raid on his mobo

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tubesaddict

You want it set to AHCI then. Is that the one that is checked?

Syjeklye

I would try ahci mode then. Cause if you have it setup for raid and there are no raids, chances are that the os setup will not see the disk.

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Anish

He's changed some of the settings
on chip primary pci IDE enabled
ahci/raid mode disabled
on chip sata mode enhanced
smart monitoring disabled
IDE master none
IDE slave none
sata port 3 maxtor hdd

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Syjeklye

Well, rather than figuring out what to change back, just set the bios to defaults and restart and see if the OS picks up the HD.

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