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From: M.L. on 23 Apr 2010 16:22 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.
From: meerkat on 23 Apr 2010 16:50 "M.L." <me(a)privacy.invalid> wrote in message news:33v3t5t5gca85t9fue2ahmedufsqithd92(a)4ax.com... > > 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. Probably a SATA driver problem., bw..M
From: Jordon on 23 Apr 2010 17:47 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
From: M.L. on 23 Apr 2010 19:08 >> 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? I think so. >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? There's no boot because there's no operating system installed. Right now I just want the drive to be detected so I can install Win XP MCE from a boot CD.
From: M.L. on 23 Apr 2010 19:14
>> 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. >Probably a SATA driver problem., >bw..M The original installed drive for the Sony VAIO VGC-RA840G is SATA so all the cable connections were intact. There are no drivers installed because there is no operating system installed yet. |