HD issue

[baconoclock]

My guess is bad cable or bad drive. Like Duke said, try swapping the cables that are known working to rule that out first. If it's not the cables I'm thinking you just ran in to some bad luck there.

good call, ill borrow the cables from the working sata drive i have. see if i cant get the bios to see the drive then .

[Duke{CLR}]

What MB are you using?

[baconoclock]

What MB are you using?

umm, its a gigabyte, 965p. cant remember the version.

[Duke{CLR}]

umm, its a gigabyte, 965p. cant remember the version.

You should find out if it is capable of recognizing a drive that is over 1 TB. You could use the new cables and a different SATA port with you current drive to test this theory.

[baconoclock]

Ok, results of testing.

Using a known good sata port and good cable: no luck
Emailed WD, they said try a certain jumper setting (sata I instead of sata II speeds) : same result.

So, using recommend jumpers set, a good sata port, and a good sata cable, no luck.

That narrows it down to a bad drive, or possibly a bios issue

Oh and to verify if it worked i checked the bios and also windows disk manager thing.

[juneau]

Sounds like a bad drive more than a BIOS issue to me.

edit: w00t. 16,000 posts lol.

[Apache Warrior]

Sounds like a bad drive more than a BIOS issue to me.

edit: w00t. 16,000 posts lol.

Congrats for the spam.
Apache

[Duke{CLR}]

Nice job on the spam.

[baconoclock]

Sounds like a bad drive more than a BIOS issue to me.

edit: w00t. 16,000 posts lol.

Haha very nice!

[juneau]

11,000 posts for Duke. Congrats.

[Duke{CLR}]

11,000 posts for Duke. Congrats.

Thanks.