Sata Maxtor - Pulled from a Dell 4700

[wesjr]

I put it in my system but its not showing up in bios or xp?

Dead Drive?

I have sata on my system, my 2nd drive is sata, I have tried it w/out my drive in as well.

My Mainboard supports 4 Sata's

 

[wahnula]

If you have power lead connected and SATA connector connected and no-show in BIOS that is not good. Try connecting it to a known working computer and formatting Disk Management (right -click My Computer->Manage->Disk Management and see if it appears there.

Does it make any whirring sound?

 

[mainegeek]

wesjr,
Have another look in the bios, Make sure the SATA controller that the drive is attached to is enabled.

Also,the drive may have a jumper on the back that may need to be repositioned or removed.

Look in control panel, administrative tools, computer management, disk management and see if the drive is showing.

 

[wesjr]

It does not show up in disk management, in the bios, the sata connections are all set to auto and I swapped my good sata w/ this one and still on show.

 

[wesjr]

No jumpers on this drive either.