SATA drive no longer detected by BIOS
- From: ohaya <ohaya@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:12:34 -0500
Hi,
I have a WD 500GB SATA drive that has been working in my system for awhile (~9 months). This system has Windows 2003 Server on it, and I had 3 partitions on the 500GB drive.
This afternoon, when I powered the system on, I noticed that the BIOS startup display wasn't showing the drive, so I went into BIOS, and sure enough, it was not displayed there. If I pressed Enter on that SATA channel, it would take a really long time, then display the drive description. But, then after I saved the settings, and booted and it displayed the drive, there as a line that read something like: "SMART command failed".
When I got into Windows, the partitions on the drive don't appear. I also tried Computer Management->Disk Management and Rescan, and it doesn't show the drive at all.
I've tried several different SATA cables with this drive on my machine, but still see the same problem. I've also tried moving the drive to another machine, and that other machine's BIOS couldn't detect the drive either.
I'm guessing that the drive is bad (duh :(!), and I've contacted Western Digital to see what they say, but I was hoping that someone here might be able to suggest something else that I can try?
Thanks in advance,
Jim
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