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Terabyte won't work?? - myposbussie - 10-07-2010
Hi,
I was at the Rage expo here in SA this weekend and it was great!!!
I bought my first terabyte there but now i can not seem to get it to work!
When I plug it in, it shows in the raid thing in bios but not in windows, or disk management.
I plugged it into my brothers computer and whola it worked.
So that tells me that something is wrong with my pc. This is the first time I have used my sata ports on this board so I do not know if they work. I went into my bios and made sure all the sata ports are enabled and all the raid stuff as well.
Will a bios update maybe help?
I have a Gigabyte MB GA-K8N51GMF-9
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ cpu
and a 500 watt psu
I have even changed out the sata data cables and still nothing.
Any help will be appreciated.
RE: Terabyte won't work?? - phire nuk3r - 10-07-2010
The most likely cause is that your bios can not recognise the drive.
Best solution is buy a Sata external H/D for a few $ and use it has an external drive because windows will recognise it straight away.
If this option isn't pleasing. You could always try and search to see if there is a bios update. This may enable it to recognise such a large drive.
RE: Terabyte won't work?? - DAMINK™ - 10-07-2010
You are running XP then i assume?
If so you can get software to deal with sata no problems at all.
Are you running XP?
RE: Terabyte won't work?? - myposbussie - 10-07-2010
yes xp pro 32bit.
I found a bios update and I will try it tonight.
Thanks for your help
I will keep you posted
RE: Terabyte won't work?? - myposbussie - 10-08-2010
Thanks allot you guys!!!
It worked.
Upgraded the bios from f2 to f8 and no problems!!
Thanks again
RE: Terabyte won't work?? - hinubz - 10-09-2010
wow these forums are much more helpfull then on HF
RE: Terabyte won't work?? - Review - 10-14-2010
You have to update your driver's, I suggest you download "Genius Driver 10" that will fix your errors.
RE: Terabyte won't work?? - DAMINK™ - 10-14-2010
(10-14-2010, 09:08 PM)Review Wrote: You have to update your driver's, I suggest you download "Genius Driver 10" that will fix your errors.
You really should read the thread properly.
Problem identified and fixed.