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Article #311BIOS not detecting hard drive
From: M.L.
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:22
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:22
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I'm trying to swap a SATA hard drive from a defunct desktop into a working desktop (Sony VAIO VGC-RA840G) that has no hard drive. The defunct computer and its hard drive have been sitting in a basement for about 2 years collecting dust. After installing the drive according to instructions from the Sony website, the BIOS only shows the 2 DVD drives being detected. Primary IDE Master [Sony DVD RW D] Primary IDE Slave [HL-DT-STDVD-ROM] The Hardware tab of the BIOS shows: SCSI-0: ST3160023A5 which is the correct model of the newly installed 160 GB hard drive. The overall installation was easy. I've never installed a hard drive before so I'm wondering if I missed setting something properly. I noticed a set of jumper pins on the hard drive but there was no plastic jumper on them to set as Master, Slave, or Select, and I've read that SATA drives don't need to be jumpered anyway. Any help with troubleshooting this issue will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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