Terabyte won't work??

[myposbussie]

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.

[phire nuk3r]

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.

[DAMINK™]

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?

[myposbussie]

yes xp pro 32bit.

I found a bios update and I will try it tonight.

Thanks for your help
I will keep you posted

[myposbussie]

Thanks allot you guys!!!

It worked.

Upgraded the bios from f2 to f8 and no problems!!

Thanks again

[hinubz]

wow these forums are much more helpfull then on HF

[Review]

You have to update your driver's, I suggest you download "Genius Driver 10" that will fix your errors.

[DAMINK™]

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.