Problem detecting hard drive

awheikkilaawheikkila
edited September 2009 in Hardware
I recently got a slight upgrade computer from a sibling. My old computer stopped working when, I believe, my motherboard crashed and fried my cpu. To my knowledge my hard drive was not maimed in any way. When I received the new pc, I tried to detect it, but could not find it in my BIOS autodetect. When this HD is the only one connected to the motherboard (I tried it in several sata ports including the first), no hard drive was found even after windows xp startup disk was run.

I don't think my hard drive was hurt at all, but I can't detect it.

Hard drive: Western Digital 1600jd

Comments

  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited September 2009
    Does your new PC detect any optical drives in the bios?
    Leave the case off and turn on the computer with the harddrive plugged in. Can you hear it spinning up and getting power?
    Also, for sake of pointing out the obvious but you need to have the sata data connector plugged into the drive as well as the power connector.
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