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Segate 1.5TB Not Recognized
I just purchased a Segate 1.5TB sata drive (ST31500341AS) from Newegg for a great price of $129.00 w/free shipping. The problem is that Vista64 Home Premium does not show the drive in the Disk Management utility. I have several 1TB drives from Seagate (ST31000340AS) which work fine. I’ve connected the new drive to a Sata cable which worked OK with a 300G drive so the port is enabled in the BIOS. I don’t think I see the new drive as the PC is booting because the screen with that information goes by so quickly – but I’m 99% sure it is not listed. Folks on the Newegg site mentioned issues with the firmware but mine is even newer than the revision that reportedly fixed previous issue. Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6 Intel Core2 Quad Q9450 4GB DDR2-1066 Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda Model: ST31500341AS P/N: 9JU138-301 FW: CC1G Date Code: 09212 -- Bonanza Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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Segate 1.5TB Not Recognized
Have you entered BIOS setup to see if the drive is listed there?
-- ---- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 Help Us Help You http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm "Bonanza" wrote in message ... I just purchased a Segate 1.5TB sata drive (ST31500341AS) from Newegg for a great price of $129.00 w/free shipping. The problem is that Vista64 Home Premium does not show the drive in the Disk Management utility. I have several 1TB drives from Seagate (ST31000340AS) which work fine. I've connected the new drive to a Sata cable which worked OK with a 300G drive so the port is enabled in the BIOS. I don't think I see the new drive as the PC is booting because the screen with that information goes by so quickly - but I'm 99% sure it is not listed. Folks on the Newegg site mentioned issues with the firmware but mine is even newer than the revision that reportedly fixed previous issue. Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6 Intel Core2 Quad Q9450 4GB DDR2-1066 Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda Model: ST31500341AS P/N: 9JU138-301 FW: CC1G Date Code: 09212 -- Bonanza Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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Segate 1.5TB Not Recognized
What does the Disk Management tool say? The drive likely needs to be
partitioned and formatted before Windows will see it. -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Desktop] * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/ * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/ "Bonanza" wrote in message ... I just purchased a Segate 1.5TB sata drive (ST31500341AS) from Newegg for a great price of $129.00 w/free shipping. The problem is that Vista64 Home Premium does not show the drive in the Disk Management utility. I have several 1TB drives from Seagate (ST31000340AS) which work fine. I’ve connected the new drive to a Sata cable which worked OK with a 300G drive so the port is enabled in the BIOS. I don’t think I see the new drive as the PC is booting because the screen with that information goes by so quickly – but I’m 99% sure it is not listed. Folks on the Newegg site mentioned issues with the firmware but mine is even newer than the revision that reportedly fixed previous issue. Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6 Intel Core2 Quad Q9450 4GB DDR2-1066 Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda Model: ST31500341AS P/N: 9JU138-301 FW: CC1G Date Code: 09212 -- Bonanza Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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Segate 1.5TB Not Recognized
The disk management tool was not seeing the drive, nor was the BIOS. Last night I moved the drive to the Sata ports connected to the Intel ICH10R and it works. The other sata controller Sil5723 (which is what I had it connected to before, and had been able to recognize a 300G drive) apparently does not support this new drive. So my problem is fixed, although I'm not totally satisfied with the solution since it limits my connectivity and I have no for free sata ports on the ICH10R controller for future expansion. -- Bonanza Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |