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why external hard drive not recognized

Jan 4, 2012 4:25AM PST

Attached an external sata hd with an esata connection. After power boot, external drive not recognized and also secondary internal sata hd not recognized.

Do I need to do something to the BIOS?

Sinch

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Could be proper.
Jan 4, 2012 5:59AM PST

There are too many variables so I'll guess the usual.

Did you partition and format this new drive?

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external sata hd not recignized.
Jan 4, 2012 12:41PM PST

I am using a Sabrent sata/ide enclosure. The very brief literature says the drive should be recognized by Win7 and offer the opportunity to partition and format the drive on power on boot.

The drive is a brand new unformatted Seagate 1.5 TB sata hd. I am using an esata cable from the computer front panel to the Sabrent. (I have verified the eSata front panel connector on my desktop is connected to my Gigabyte MB. The ext sata hd is internally connected in the external enclosure to the sata data and power connector with the Sabrent supplied short connector cables..

When I power up boot, my internal secondary hard drive is not recognized and the unformatted drive is not recognized. Restarting after without the ext drive connected to restore everything back to normal is agonizingly slow. But I am able to recover.

Chatter on the Internet for folks using this enclosure with IDE drives is very positive. One user using Sata gave up disgusted.

Thanks for responding.

Sinch

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Then it is the usual.
Jan 4, 2012 12:47PM PST

A brand new unformatted drive will show in Disk Management ready for you to partition and format per you wishes.

This is rarely automatic so we get to find Disk Management and perform the usual steps of a right click partition and then format.
Bob

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external sata hd not recignized
Jan 5, 2012 12:08PM PST

hello my


external sata hd not recignized. -eror pls solve it

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Probably did.
Jan 5, 2012 12:12PM PST