Re: BIOS not detecting hard drive

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From: Jordon
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:47

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M.L. wrote:
>
> 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.

If it's how you say in the first part of your post, the error
upon boot would be that there is no boot drive detected (or
something like that). Is that what happens? Or does it start
to boot but Windows fails to load because all of the Windows
drivers installed on that drive don't work with all the new
and different hardware?

-- 
Jordon

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