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


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