Thread: Hard Drive help
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Old 2005-05-24, 03:00 PM
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Re: Hard Drive help

I know very little about SATA right now, but it seems to me that if it was working at one time (your "bad" drive), the reason it's not working now probably isn't due to a conflict with the SATA.

Does your motherboard have IDE connectors on it? If so, and if it's possible, disconnect the SATA and put in a master IDE with Windows on it and then connect the "bad" drive to the motherboard as a slave. This will eliminate the IDE card as being the problem. See if you can see the files on the slave. If not, I'd say your FAT or NTFS is bad.

Just because the drive is only 6-12 months old, doesn't mean it isn't going bad, but it is very unlikely.
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