Trying to install a second SATA drive.....

the bios detects the drive as "unknown" but that's as far as the computer gets to recognizing it. Windows has no clue its there.

The original drive was also a seagate sata drive just the barracuda 7200.7 instead of the barracuda 7200.8 im trying to put in...

The main segate sata drive is in the 0 slot and the second in the 1.

Ive tried switching around cords an such, it seems the power is fine and the connection to the board is ok.

do i need to put some jumper on to make the drive motherboard compatible?

Its a dell dimenions tower 8400

4/13/2008 12:26:42 AM

Might be a DoA drive.

4/13/2008 12:29:48 AM

yeah im hoping that ive just missed something, i did a little legwork with google and tried all the easy to find/do fixes.

still no go =(

4/13/2008 1:50:58 AM

Try seeing if it shows up in disk management.

4/13/2008 3:16:54 AM

I bet it's just dead. RMA that sucker.

4/13/2008 5:24:49 PM