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Old December 3rd, 2010, 01:11 AM
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Western Digital Hard drive

Im installing Windows 7 onto a new hard drive. It keeps telling me that it cant detect my hard drive and that I need to upload the drivers via some other media source ie usb drive. The hard drive is straight out of the box and I dont think Western Digitil has hard drive drivers. Is there some solution to this?
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Old December 3rd, 2010, 03:37 PM
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What drivers is it asking for? Assuming the drive is SATA, Is the bios option pertaining to SATA devices set for IDE, AHCI, or RAID mode? Is there already an operating system on the pc or is this a new build?
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Old December 3rd, 2010, 08:37 PM
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its and old pc but a new hard drive. new problems have arisen. I had to hook up the new sata drive with a molex to sata power adapter and now when I turn the pc on it says:

the bios does not be installed press g to continue

or something like that. Im assuming its not detecting the hard drive now?
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Old December 3rd, 2010, 10:29 PM
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an update. I hooked up the hard drive to my other pc and successfully installed windows 7 onto it. Booted up just fine on my newer pc. Hooked it back up to the old pc and it said the same error message about no bios installed. any ideas?
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Old December 3rd, 2010, 11:58 PM
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is it possible the new hard drive isnt getting enough power? they both list the same volts but the new hard drive has a smaller number for amps. What does this mean exactly?
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Old December 4th, 2010, 02:44 AM
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Better list the complete system specs for the old pc.

Depending on the hardware, there's a chance you'll need to set the drive up in the bios for it to be recognized, or the psu may be stessed with that xtra drive installed (can't say without the pc specs).
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Old December 4th, 2010, 03:02 AM
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is there some way I can post all the pc specs?
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Old December 4th, 2010, 03:35 AM
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Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 3
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name EXPERIENCEPTS (blue glowy pc)
User Name Administrator

Motherboard:
CPU Type AMD Athlon 64, 2000 MHz (10 x 200) 3200+
Motherboard Name Asus A8V (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 4 DDR DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)
Motherboard Chipset VIA K8T800Pro, AMD Hammer
System Memory 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type AMI (05/29/07)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)

Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 6200 (256 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce 6200 AGP
Monitor Plug and Play Monitor [NoDB] (HVJZ403448)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter VIA AC'97 Enhanced Audio Controller

Storage:
IDE Controller VIA Bus Master IDE Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller FGDSCSI (2003) SCSI Host Adapter
SCSI/RAID Controller VIA Serial ATA RAID Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive SanDisk Cruzer USB Device (14 GB, USB)
Optical Drive FgFx CDDVDx+tech-200x SCSI CdRom Device
Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B (DVD+R9:4x, DVD+RW:16x/8x, DVD-RW:16x/6x, DVD-RAM:5x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:40x/24x/40x DVD+RW/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 152617 MB (97924 MB free)

Input:
Keyboard HID Keyboard Device
Mouse HID-compliant mouse

Network:
Network Adapter Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (192.168.1.103)

Peripherals:
Printer HP Deskjet D1500 series
Printer HP Photosmart D110 series
Printer Microsoft XPS Document Writer
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB Controller
USB2 Controller VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller
USB Device USB Composite Device
USB Device USB Human Interface Device
USB Device USB Human Interface Device
USB Device USB Human Interface Device
USB Device USB Mass Storage Device


--------[ DMI ]---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[ BIOS ]

BIOS Properties:
Vendor American Megatrends Inc.
Version 0229
Release Date 05/29/2007
Size 512 KB
Boot Devices Floppy Disk, Hard Disk, CD-ROM, ATAPI ZIP, LS-120
Capabilities Flash BIOS, Shadow BIOS, Selectable Boot, EDD, BBS
Supported Standards DMI, APM, ACPI, ESCD, PnP
Expansion Capabilities ISA, PCI, AGP, USB
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Old December 4th, 2010, 03:36 AM
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If you need to know anything else let me know

keep in mind thats the old hard drive, the new one obviously isnt working

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Old December 4th, 2010, 06:54 PM
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Am I right to assume the mobo is the AV8 and not the AV8_Deluxe?

What is the psu make/model and how many watts is it rated for? (should be a sticker on the side of the psu with the information)

That board should support a total of 6 drives (4 PATA and 2 SATA interfaces).

I think you're main problem stems from the SATA ports being configured for RAID (I didn't see an option in the bios to change it). I'm pretty sure that's why you got the Bios load error. You have to enter the raid configuration utility and set the drive up for use with the controller. (you'll need to use the "raid span for capacity" option when configuring it, since raid 0 and raid 1 require 2 or more disks). After that you'll need to have the controller drivers available on a floppy (for xp) or usb drive (vista and win7) to install the OS. Thats why when you tried to load win7 you were asked to supply drivers for the hard drive. The other issue here is that the motherboard has no driver support for windows 7.
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Old December 5th, 2010, 12:24 AM
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Well I already have Win7 installed on the hard drive. So basically I need to hook up the hard drive to my newer pc, and install a raid configuration utility on it, and set the sata drive up for raid?
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Old December 5th, 2010, 02:41 AM
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I don't think it will work as easy as that. I would put the new drive in, set the array up via the raid utility, then install win7 from scratch.
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Old December 5th, 2010, 04:44 AM
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so where would I download one of these raid utilities?
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Old December 5th, 2010, 04:57 AM
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Don't need to download anything, the utility is already integrated in the system. just hit your Tab key during post and it will open. the directions for using the utility are found in you motherboard manual (If you don't have it you can D/L from ASUS' support site) starting on page 5-11.
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Old December 5th, 2010, 05:33 AM
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so do I need to do this on the pc that actually detects the hard drive?
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